Hides Attacker's Local Activities 5. Linux Intrusion Detection System Details LIDS is a patch which enhances the kernel's security. When this patch is in effect, many system administration operations can be made impossible even for someone with root access. You can turn the security protection on or off on the fly and as well as hide sensitive processes and prevent anyone from using ptrace or any other capability on your system. File System is unprotected.
Processes are unprotected.
System administration is unprotected. Authentication to access the system cannot be trusted. File can be hidden. Protection of process, No one including root can kill the protected process. Process can be hidden.