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With the appearance of Sourcefire as FIRE on the NASDAQ, I'd like to congratulate Marty Roesch and friends for bringing their company ...

Yesterday I learned that more friends of mine from Foundstone have departed to start their own companies. I could probably list a dozen suc...

Earlier this year I covered Check Point 's attempt to purchase Sourcefire . Well, Check Point bought another vendor -- NFR -- for $2...

Bill Brenner published this quote in his story Sourcefire IPO could fuel Snort, users say : The infrastructure to support Snort isn't ch...

In the spirit of not trying to repeat what everyone else blogs, I'll keep this post on the Sourcefire IPO brief. The must-read post be...

Eighteen months after MCI bought MSSP NetSec , another telecom has bought another MSSP. This time, BT bought Counterpane . I guessed that...

I think it does. Managed network security services is one arena where size is always a factor, and bigger is usually better. With more emp...

By now you've heard that IBM is buying ISS for $1.3 billion. Wow. This is much larger than the purchases of Foundstone, @Stake and G...

I've wanted to say something about ENIRA for several months now, but I've been under a non-disclosure agreement. This morning, how...

According to Sourcefire's press release : Sourcefire, Inc., the world leader in intrusion prevention, today announced that, with the con...

Based on a friend's tip, I found myself looking for this press release , which reads in part: Check Point ® Software Technologies Ltd. (...

I just learned that CMP Media , publishers of IT magazines like Network Computing and IT Architect (formerly Network Magazine) just acqui...

Eric B. Parizo mentioned me in his story Snort users fear future under Check Point . One of the quotes appears as follows: Richard Bejtlich...

This was a busy week for me; I spent all week teaching (and all last week preparing) a private Network Security Operations class in Califor...

The 45 survivors at iDEFENSE must be breathing a sigh of relief. Verisign will buy iDEFENSE for $40 million. That is $100 million less ...

I am happy to announce the redesign of TaoSecurity.com as the corporate home of TaoSecurity. In the coming days and weeks I will transitio...

Today I visited the Columbia, MD headquarters of Sourcefire with DC Snort Users Group founder Keith McCammon, pictured with me at left. W...

On Friday Lockheed Martin announced it is buying The Sytex Group for $462 million. Sytex's revenue for 2004 was $425 million, not mu...

I only recently learned that telecom giant MCI bought managed security services provider NetSec for $105 million . Other telecom companie...

I was happy to learn that another friend and ex-Foundstone colleague, Nish Bhalla, has started his own consulting company: Security Compass ...