IDMEF The purpose of IDMEF (''Intrusion Detection Message Exchange Format'') is to define data formats and exchange procedures for sharing information of interest to intrusion detection and response systems and to the management systems that may need to interact with them. It is used in computer security for incidents reporting and exchanging. It is intended for easy automatic processing. Format details is described in the RFC 4765. An implementation of the data model in the Extensible Markup Language (XML) is presented and XML Document Type Definition is developed.〔http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4765.txt〕 == Example == IDMEF report of ping of death attack can look as follows: