Sat, Dec 15 2007 5:48 Don

Security Vendors Revamp Desktop Suites

Five security vendors--Cisco Systems, Checkpoint, 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.

It's a compelling vision and an ideal goal. It's also impossible.

Full story at informationweek.com 

 

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