Bringing the dead back to life
In early 2005 the SURFids Framework, later renamed to SURFcert IDS, was developed (http://ids.surfnet.nl/wiki/doku.php). The unique concept was the centralised detection approach, based on honeypots, with decentralised sensors running OpenVPN. From a marketing perspective ‘IDS’ was chosen in the name, in that age a popular term. Many organisations worldwide have used this open-source framework, however with a last update on the code in 2011, the project slowly died.