A county IDS fires on a library VLAN, and Enterprise Security also shows a notable. How should the analyst treat the two systems?
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Short Explanation
The IDS is a smoke detector; ES is the fire-panel that listens to many detectors at once. Keep the sensor as a sensor and the SIEM as the correlator—do not swap their job titles.
Full Explanation
IDS/IPS (including next-gen IDS) is a cyber defense system that inspects traffic and emits alerts. Those alerts are a useful data source into Splunk Enterprise Security, which is the SIEM that normalizes, correlates, and presents notables. IDS alerts can and should be onboarded; they are not the SIEM themselves, ES is not a packet broker, and the two products are not interchangeable. Civic analysts treat IDS output as one contributing sensor, not as a reason to disable ES.