
355Introduction to Wireless Intrusion Detection Systems
14.7.1 eValuation of widS alertS
The key components for administrators or automated response systems are the following:
• The volume of alerts
• The condence in the validity of alerts
• The ability to interpret alerts in a meaningful way
It has been mentioned in [56] that these human factors of intrusion detection are more important
in industry than the technology challenges, although they are interrelated. The goal at the evalua-
tion stage for a WIDS is to reduce the amount of data displayed to the administrator, to display it in
a meaningful way, and to make sure the administrator ha ...