Re: FW: The 11 Worst Ideas in Security

["Alex Eckelberry" <AlexE () sunbelt-software com>]

Finally, the truth comes out:
 
11. Security Industry and Market Analysts (I am become analyst, the
destroyer of markets)


Those bastions of knowledge, defenders of the objective faith, and
creators of 2-page, in depth, market analysis reports. They don't
actually analyze security they analyze the security market, they say
cool things like "By the end of 2007, 75% of enterprises will be
infected with undetected, financially motivated, targeted malware that
evaded their traditional perimeter and host defenses." and come up with
amusing names and acronyms, (did you know that NBA - Network Behavior
Analysis - was at one time called NADS - Network Anomaly Detection
System - you can imagine the fun Gartner could of had with an overview
of the NADS market). I spent years as an analyst myself and I loved my
time, but I will always regret that analysts never actually test, demo,
or even interact with the technology they so confidently and assertively
write about.


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On Behalf Of Larry Seltzer
Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 9:32 PM
To: funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: [funsec] FW: The 11 Worst Ideas in Security



I only scanned this blog
(http://techbuddha.wordpress.com/2008/08/22/the-11-worst-ideas-in-securi
ty/) but I did like this one line I saw:

> > 5. WEP (French encryption - it surrenders in minutes)

Larry Seltzer
eWEEK.com Security Center Editor
http://security.eweek.com/
http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/
Contributing Editor, PC Magazine
larry.seltzer () ziffdavisenterprise com

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