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Re: Proxies, opensource and the general market: what's wrong with us?
From: Anton Chuvakin <anton () chuvakin org>
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 12:53:14 -0700
And the second point seems to be pretty valid. We have *NO* product that is a match for current "market leaders". It does not mean it is impossible: it is quite obviously possible, but we still do not have it.
Well, now I know that I missed the fw-wiz discussions of the list's "golden years" :-) In ArkanoiD's insightful rant, I am hearing "open source security tools are dead." Is that really so? I doubt it - and here is why: I think a lot of use cases for OSS sec tools are being dismissed by the rant author as "cheapo crap." In reality, "cheapo crap" means "used by everybody else but F1000" For example, over the last few years, a lot of my blog traffic has been driven by people googling for "open source SIEM" and "open source log management." People are googling for this like crazy - this point to an existing need for a free/OSS log management tools. Snort (IMHO) and nmap are still in common use. Web app firewall (WAF) has a lot of open source action as well. Now, is there a big "market" now for an open source network firewall? Hmm, not so sure.... -- Dr. Anton Chuvakin Site: http://www.chuvakin.org Blog: http://www.securitywarrior.org LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/chuvakin Consulting: http://www.securitywarriorconsulting.com Twitter: @anton_chuvakin Google Voice: +1-510-771-7106 _______________________________________________ firewall-wizards mailing list firewall-wizards () listserv icsalabs com https://listserv.icsalabs.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards
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- Re: Proxies, opensource and the general market: what's wrong with us? Anton Chuvakin (Apr 25)