RE: RSA Conference 2003

["Michael Steele" <michaels () silicondefense com>]

Jim,

One of our engineers went to the Sun booth and the guy was walking all over
himself trying to explain the operation of the box. They did know some
things about the box but (IMHO) not enough to be talking about it,
especially to potential customers.

There was one company, catty cornered from our booth (forgot the name), but
they had a hardware solution that was firewall, antivirus and had 7 other
items in the box. They had this guy that was placed in a straight jacket as
a gimmick for their product, and he explained the product the whole time he
was being placed in the jacket until he got free from the jacket. We heard
this 20 times. We noticed that he was describing the product word for word
every time right down to the grunts he was making while he was getting out
of the jacket. There was also some other booths that had some gimmicks.
Microsoft's boot, I thought was very good. The 20 minute seminars were very
informative concerning Server 2003.

I parked all day: $18.00 ouch....

-Michael
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-----Original Message-----
From: snort-users-admin () lists sourceforge net
[mailto:snort-users-admin () lists sourceforge net] On Behalf Of mcmurry jim
Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2003 8:16 AM
To: Michael Steele; snort-users () lists sourceforge net

I went on Monday and to last nights SourceFire shindig
at the "W" hotel (I wound up paying $12 per hour for
parking at the hotel...oh well live and learn)

Michael, you are correct, there was none, other than
silicondefense showing a snort based product.  I dont
count Sun in this as 4 of the 5 sales guys I spoke
with had no idea what a snort rule was let alone
Acid....

The show however overall was very good.  I even
enjoyed talking with the guys from Recourse (Symantec)
who had one of the developers of Mantrap giving a demo
of the system, Microsoft had a good speaker later in
the day in their booth talking about group policy
issues (very informative)

There were a lot of "fob" companies there, each trying
to out do the other in pricing it seemed for the same
product :)

Overall, I would go again (this was a first RSA Conf
for me).  There were more people than I expected at
the Expo (attendees)

I am going to Networld/Interop on the 29th, so I am
hoping to get a better understanding of what I need to
do for my organization.



jim mcmurry


--- Michael Steele <michaels () silicondefense com>
wrote:
> All,
>
> Did anyone go? What did you think?
>
> We had a booth there, which I was able to attend for
> 1 day. It was amazing,
> all the big boys were there displaying all their new
> hardware. Not
> surprising, but a lot of companies had a lot of the
> same type of products
> (multiple products in the same box).
>
> It was surprising to only see two companies with
> Snort products. We (Silicon
> Defense) had one of our Snort based products out on
> display (CounterSleuth),
> and Sun had an LX50 which displayed the Sourcefire
> name and had Snort, and
> the Sourcefire console on it.
>
>  -Michael
>
>  Michael Steele | System Engineer / Support
> Technician
>  mailto:michaels () silicondefense com
>  Silicon Defense: IDS solutions -
> http://www.silicondefense.com
>  Snort: Open Source Network IDS -
> http://www.snort.org
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