ISS: Pot, kettle, black, etc..

["Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

How do ya like them apples? I seem to recall ISS was itself
involved in the whole sordid "Ciscogate" embroglio...

Via SC Magazine:

[snip]

Cisco and Oracle have been panned by a security expert for dealing with software vulnerabilities and putting users at 
risk.

Johan Beckers, director of technology solutions at Internet Security Systems (ISS) singled out the two companies when 
talking at a Network and Security event in Capri, Italy.

"Let me put it this way," he said. "There are some companies that do not respond to us finding vulnerabilities in their 
software in the right way. They still think we are the enemy. I would say Cisco and Oracle have problems in this area."

ISS runs a vulnerability research team that works with a number of enterprise companies to find vulnerabilities in its 
software before hackers do. According to Beckers not all companies are as lax as Cisco and Oracle, and he singled out 
Microsoft for particular praise.

ISS was at the event peddling its Proventia security appliances which protect against viruses, spam and malware.

[snip]

http://www.scmagazine.com/news/index.cfm?fuseaction=newsDetails&newsUID=77789754-705d-4f65-85f3-3e2cd713e938&newsType=Latest%20News

- ferg


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"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/

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