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. ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Larry Seltzer Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 9:32 PM To: [email protected] 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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