Bechtolsheim's baby Arista Networks soars in stock market debut Arista Networks has gained in its stock market debut, likely causing some employees at networking giant Cisco's competitive intelligence team to put together some slides on what the implications of a wealthy, publicly-listed competitor are for networking incumbents. Arista's stock increased 33 per cent on its debut day to $57 …
With really good monitoring you effectively create a giant honeypot.
Exactly right. Add to that a couple of tarpits to soak up attacker resources and a good dose of deception scripts (think Fred Cohen's DTK and whatever he came up next) and you could cook up a bit of a headache for the purveyors of the APT path into your information, be it criminal hackers or government ones (from a protection perspective there's little difference IMHO, only that the latter can also slap you with a legal demand if you piss them off too much).
However, I see people laugh at Cisco for "sticking with the old" - actually, this is a fairly standard cycle. Someone comes up with something new, grabs the market, gets good income on it and grows big - at which point statis seems to set in, and the gap starts opening up for the next clever idea. A big company has two options: seek to buy out upstarts before they become a threat or suck them dry in court. The third option of innovating inside tends to die with the R&D budget.
"Add to that a couple of tarpits to soak up attacker resources and a good dose of deception scripts (think Fred Cohen's DTK and whatever he came up next) and you could cook up a bit of a headache for the purveyors of the APT path into your information, be it criminal hackers or government ones (from a protection perspective there's little difference IMHO, only that the latter can also slap you with a legal demand if you piss them off too much)."
True.
One snoops "enabling security" is another criminal hackers back door.
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