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 # excessive-acl
-App correlates syslog messages emmited by a Cisco ASA against access-lists applied to interfaces
+App correlates syslog messages emitted by a Cisco ASA against access-lists applied to interfaces
 
 ## Use case
 Identification of ACL-entries that are over-permissive based on past traffic.