Cisco’s news at this years RSA Conference is the unveiling of SecureX. Cisco itself describes this next generation security architecture as “complicated” in that it includes new scanning elements, policy language and enforcement capabilities (endpoint control, presumably), all aimed at improving security in a broader range of contexts. While Cisco admits these context-aware scanning elements [...]

At one point or another, everyone, including me, will say something that they did not mean to say, or say something that is taken the wrong way. The saying goes, open mouth, insert foot. Others may say I have difficulty coping with an inner dialog.

One of my many roles as a founder and CTO is to meet with customers and talk about their network security issues. These visits are not only informative, they can be humorous as well. For example, a recent visit to a large, fortune 500 company, they told me that one of our firewall competitors explained [...]