Re: Port 445, BB-style security news services,

[Steve Lord <steve () buyukada co uk>]

Edward Ray wrote:

> Reading articles like these makes me want to start my own security blog...
>
> You have to look at your audience here.  While I am surprised that E-week
> would pick up on this FUD, this is what Gartner makes its money on.  Some
> CIO who is paying oodles of money for access to Gartner's reports and advice
> will look and see that his security devices are in the "Magic Quadrant" and
> thus his/her network is safe.
>  
I don't think it's a case of Magic Quadrant = Secure IMHO. It seems more 
the case that larger businesses' decisions on technologies are 
influenced (e.g. we have a pot of money, do we spend it on IDS or 
firewalls?) by what they perceive to be happening at other businesses. 
This may seem to be some form of business risk analysis (if everyone 
else is buying firewalls, they must be a safe bet) but that implies that 
CIOs have little more to offer businesses than lemmings and that they're 
incapable of deciding for themselves, something anyone who's ever had to 
get sign-off from one will know is grossly untrue. Then again, YCIOMV

> What is even more amusing is the "Magic Quadrant" that I here quoted by
> vendors and Gartner alike.  I think my Tipping Point IPS and Netscreen
> devices are/were in the Magic Quadrant.   Whew, what a relief :)
>  
The funny thing about the Magic Quadrant is how vendors are desperate to 
be seen in there, to the point where some will develop an entire product 
based upon the idea that being in the MQ will somehow bring them vast 
sums of money - one former employer developed a 'threat corellation' 
tool on the grounds that gartner said it was the next big thing. Maybe 
I'm doing something wrong here by not doing so, but then again I'm not 
in the Magic Quadrant. Anyway, I've blogged about this at 
http://www.snakeoillabs.com as I've created my own 'mailing list' Magic 
Quadrant - it's free, too!
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