Innovation is dead, long live innovation

Just could not help noticing the irony of Richard Stiennon ranting against those who claim there has not been innovation in network security lately. This from the IDS is dead, NAC is dead, Twitter is dead, this is dead, that is dead expert.  Richard likes to talk about technologies acting like magic, but I wonder if he is actually digging under the covers to see what is really so special about the “magic” he is describing or is he swallowing the bill of goods the vendor feeds the analyst.

One thing about Richard though is that he still looks at himself and security as if he is the Knight standing at the drawbridge over the moat surrounding the castle.  Any talk of de-perimeterzation elicits a visceral response from Richard.  Subsequently a lot of what he considers innovative deals with the tried and tired M&M view of security.  Hard on the outside, soft on the inside.  Melts in your mouth and not in your hands.  I don’t want to get into the whole Jericho thing with Richard, but I do think we need as much security “in the network” as we do at the perimeter.

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