A Security Scoreboard Grows in Brooklyn

The Security Bloggers Network brings me in contact with a wide range of great and interesting people. Last year on the eve of the RSA security bloggers meet up, I received a request to join the SBN and an to be invited to the meet up from Dr Boaz Gelbord. Boaz was the author of a blog and a good security guy, but what got him the last minute invite was that he promised to bring me some real Brooklyn pizza. Real NY’ers know that you can keep the tourist stuff they sell in Manhattan, the best pizza is made in Brooklyn.

Boaz came to the meet up sans pizza, but was a charming fellow and a great addition to the SBN. I heard from Boaz just recently when he contacted me about potentially sponsoring the podcasters meet up at Shmoocon. He told me he was launching something new.

Today he announced his Security Scoreboard. Security Scoreboard “seeks to help security practitioners and executives find the right information security vendor.” They have set up a data base of many of the security vendors out there with links to analyst reports, product reviews and other pertinent information.

Besides and alphabetical listing, there is also a listing by category. Something like this is really good if for example you are looking for a DLP solution and want to see the players. Of course you could pay out the big bucks for a Gartner report and play magic quadrant bingo.

The real power of Security Scoreboard though will come from you. That’s right, you reading this blog right now. The Security Scoreboard gives each and every one of us the ability to post our own review of a product or company. Sort of Amazon comes to information security.

Right now there are not a lot of user reviews on there. Ultimately the usefulness of Security Scoreboard to the security community will be based upon how many reviews are posted there.

So if you agree with me that this could be a great resource for the community, take the time and give a thumbs up or down to some of your favorite or least favorite security products. In the meantime good luck to Boaz and Security Scoreboard.