Reply From: Anonymous I've sat by and heard enough--and thanks, Mark, for pointing this out . . . I have spoken to a half-dozen former "insiders" from ISS. They all told me the same thing: The X force has four guys on their team--not 50 (humor). And I have heard from ISS' own people, claiming at various conferences--various numbers (25 at Infowar.con), (40 at CSI, 25 at CSI--same conference, different people and different "presentations"). Hmm. A virtual number. Cool. Funny, I was at an Intrusion Detection "Summit" meeting in Tucson yesterday with all the key players. I thought it ironic that it was ISS' Val Kilmer look-alike marketing VP (or whatever his title was) that brought up the issue of "ethics"--it wasn't just me snickering. And last year, it was one of ISS' PMs that came up to me and said the X-force was their response to Axent's SWAT Team. "They caught us off-guard on that one" was his comment to me. However, the difference--other than the numbers actually involved--is that Axent's team doesn't lay claim to every good idea, every "new" hack solution, and every "innovative" strategy that somebody else actually developed. But then again, ISS never did have to deal with "credit where credit is due." If this isn't another classic case of the Marketing Machine alive and well--nothing is. And frankly, such blatant smoke-screening is pathetic. What was that about ethics? -o- Subscribe: mail majordomoat_private with "subscribe isn". Today's ISN Sponsor: Repent Security Incorporated [www.repsec.com]
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