Symantec™ Security Gateways Reference Guide - Sawmill

IDS eventsAbout IDS/IPS events and descriptions275Highlighting an event, and clicking Properties calls up that event’s properties window. Figure B-2 shows anexample of a properties window for a DNS Malformed Data event.Figure B-2DNS malformed data properties windowIDS/IPS event typesAll security gateway IDS/IPS events are sorted into general categories, called IDS/IPS event types. An IDS/IPS event type is a short description that serves as a summarization of the type of event. IDS/IPS can applyto more than one reported event, and are not necessarily unique. For example, there may be more than onetype of event classified as a DNS Malformed Data event, depending on the checks performed by the IDS/IPScomponent.