Did someone say integration?
ISS put a big push at RSA with their new on demand security services. I got a big kick out of hearing their CEO, Tom Noonan speak about how integration of security services is key. He was interviewed recently in e-week, where he says, he is "tired of seeing every new point solution touted as the savior of the Internet, and he's had it with the hodgepodge of security technologies from various vendors not working together and causing administrators more headaches than the threats they're trying to protect against." I agree with him wholeheartedly. The problem is, in the ISS view of integration, only products from ISS integrate with each other, not with other vendors products. ISS should practice what they preach, they should make available open API's that will allow other vendors to integrate their solutions with ISS. I know we have tried to integrate our products with ISS and have received zero cooperation from them. This is how we can move out of a stovepipe or silo security market and still allow customers to have best of breed solutions. Instead bigger companies like ISS, Symantec, etc. only integrate with their own products, forcing customers to choose the value of integration over the quality of solutions they deploy. Customers should not have to compromise, they should have best-of-breed solutions that work together!



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