Your intrusion detection system has alerted you that you are getting a SIP attack. What would you consider this attack to be, based solely on the information you have?

A SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) attack typically involves attempts to exploit weaknesses in SIP communication, which is commonly used for initiating, maintaining, and terminating real-time sessions in applications such as VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol). When an intrusion detection system (IDS) alerts you about a potential SIP attack, it indicates that suspicious activity has been detected related to SIP messages.

If you are assessing whether the alert is a true alert or a false one based solely on the information at hand, you would focus on the nature of the alert. A false positive means the system has incorrectly identified legitimate traffic as malicious, leading to an alert for an incident that isn't actually taking place. This can happen due to misconfigurations, environmental changes, or benign behavior being misinterpreted as an attack.

True positives, on the other hand, would indicate that an actual attack is occurring, while denial of service refers specifically to attacks aimed at overwhelming services to render them unavailable. A malicious request would describe specific interaction intended to breach the system, but it does not necessarily relate to the overall context of the SIP attack being a false alarm.

In this case, choosing false positive suggests that the IDS has raised an alert based on misinterpreted or innocuous signals, rather than