Eating The Elephant

摘要

Five security vendors—cisco systems, check Point, IBM, McAfee, and Symantec—have spent more than $3.7 billion over the past two years acquiring companies and products to support their vision of holistic threat management. This frenzy stems from the spurious notion that your entire infrastructure, your applications, your policies, your processes, and your people can mesh into a unified threat management framework that will ward off intruders, malicious insiders, petulant auditors, and ignorant users.