Get Rich Quick With Network Security

• Get a glass jar or empty coffee can and a marker.
• Write on the container in bold letters “Security Silly Jar: $0.25″.
• Have people put a quarter in the Security Silly jar every time they say:
• ‘UTM’ and ‘Enterprise’ in the same sentence.
• in fact, anytime they same UTM.
• Manage and Threat in the same sentence.  Besides from solving security by becoming the world overlord of hackers and natural events, you could get a sweet triple quarter win with the first 3 on this list.  The Security Silly Jar is cruel and unforgiving.
• the security market will converge and we’ll all be buying from SingleBigSecCo.  Yes yes - pay no attention to the hundreds of security companies. <achoo!>  Oh look - one security company was bought and three new ones were announced when I sneezed!
• network and host security will converge.
• when discussing security, any two of the following in the same sentence: green, virtual, cloud, as-a-service, Moore’s Law, stealth-mode, holistic, market-leading, commodity, transformative, game-changer, quantum, or plug-and-play.
• they are creating a new security buying center.  Um, I bet there is no budget for that…
• no-one uses IPS for blocking.  If that were the case, all those people want that annual spend of $1B back.
• software can’t be secure.  Could you please at least try….
• security education is the best safeguard.
• we only need to rely on host security because the perimeter is changed/disappeared/a-budget-I-as-a-host-security-salesperson-want-to-go-after.  I will pay you a quarter from the Security Silly Jar if you connect your HR/payroll server to the Internet without any network safeguards.  Hackers will however charge you more to get it back.
• anything bad about Gartner security analyst Greg Young.