Happy days are on the horizon for security vendors.
Even notorious cracker Kevin Mitnick, one of the most popular convicted felons on the security circuit, is helping out with hype as closing keynote speaker at the Giga Information Group's Infrastructures for E-Business conference held in Los Angeles. Everybody else is suspect. In other words, I need to know what they offer, their business strengths and weaknesses, their technology advantages and shortcomings, services levels, estimated longevity, and everything else in order to determine if they re a serious player for the long haul. So many security firms are either cropping up, widening their offerings or touting Internet infrastructure security solutions that assessments are nigh impossible for customers to conduct effectively. I ve got to tell you this market is getting crowded and it ll be standing room only for quite a while.