"Eggs in One Basket" was the working title of a book I pitched to 
my editor, based on securing converged networks. But they didn't 
like the title, and besides, the  market is all soft, so they 
didn't want it....

Annlee

Chuck Whose Road is Ever Shorter wrote:
> as a former Merrill Lynch employee, and as someone chest deep in Cisco
these
> days, I found this article of interest. It certainly brings up something
> that has always nagged me from the back of my brain, to whit, the inherent
> vulnerability of IP in general, and thus the wisdom of putting everything
in
> the world on interconnected IP networks.
> 
> http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0725merrill.html
> 
> I found the following of particular interest:
> 
> "The spokesman says that a "doubling of attacks" on the firm's IP network
> over the last 18 months prompted rethinking of the firm's IP convergence
> strategy. He did not elaborate about the attacks.
>  "The main thing to get across is that this was not a vendor-preference
> decision at all," the spokesman says. "This is basically
> risk-assessment-driven."
> 
> Any thoughts? Worth discussing?




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