Friday, September 22, 2023

Big security news

Via Dwight, Cisco buys security vendor Splunk for $28B:

Cisco is making its most expensive acquisition ever – by far - with an announcement it's buying data crunching software firm Splunk for $157 per share, or approximately $28 billion (£22.8b).

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Per Cisco, the deal will bring Splunk's analytics capabilities to Cisco to create a new model of cybersecurity that prioritizes threat prediction and prevention over threat detection and response.

This is really big news.  I have no insight into what "threat prediction" is or how it would work other than to echo Yogi Berra - prediction is hard, especially about the future.

 

8 comments:

  1. Unfortunately, I don't see Splunk getting any cheaper. It's way out of the price league for any company I've worked for in the past 25 years.

    Kurt

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  2. The way I heard it, it was actually cheaper for Cisco to buy Splunk than to pay for a subscription.

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  3. Borepatch what's your take on Peter's article over at Bayou Rennaissance Man about having a period in your email address?

    I have no clue about this, but I understand you're in the business of cybersecurity.

    Thanks

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  4. Michael,

    This looks to be a bug in GMail. If you use a different email service you won't see this.

    I've worked at companies where the email address format was firstname.lastname@company.com and never saw this happen - but email was on a corporate email server

    - Borepatch

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  5. In Big Business "prediction" is less about knowing what the future will bring and more about controlling events so that you can control what the future brings.

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  6. Thanks, Borepatch, I kind of thought it was a bug. Not one I'd welcome.

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  7. Prediction=surveillance. No way will this be abused.

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