Using an adversarial mindset, research potential exploits, vulnerabilities, or evasion techniques that a threat actor could employ to bypass an intrusion detection system (IDS) or an intrusion prevention system (IPS). For example, some expert hackers create network chatter as an evasion technique to hide their actual exploit. The chatter may send analysts down the wrong path: While they are evaluating the output of their IDS or IPS, the real attack happens elsewhere.
For your initial post, imagine you are an analyst working for an organization that uses only an IDS or an IPS for internal network protection. Describe how one exploit, vulnerability, or evasion technique you researched affects the organization’s security posture. Is your organization vulnerable to that exploit regardless of whether it employs IDS or IPS? Or can the attack be blocked by the use of one or the other? Explain.