http://emergentchaos.com/archives/2008/05/csos-fud-watch.html The Emergent Chaos Jazz Combo Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:20:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://emergentchaos.com/archives/2008/05/csos-fud-watch.html/comment-page-1#comment-4683 B.K. DeLong Thu, 29 May 2008 13:09:23 +0000 http://emergentchaos.com/?p=2777#comment-4683 Yeah, that was one of the contributing reasons we stopped the Defacement Mirror at Attrition.org. So many vendors were pointing to defacements as a means for generating revenue and stirring up FUD about the insecurity of everything. We also had vendors utilizing the site for daily intelligence reports they resold as a service sans attribution. I suspect, however, it's far easier to anecdotally call people out then back it up with data. It will be interesting to see how much pressure CSO will get from advertisers to do just that. Or whether they'll be calling out specific vendors instead of focusing on bogus trends. Yeah, that was one of the contributing reasons we stopped the Defacement Mirror at Attrition.org. So many vendors were pointing to defacements as a means for generating revenue and stirring up FUD about the insecurity of everything. We also had vendors utilizing the site for daily intelligence reports they resold as a service sans attribution.
I suspect, however, it’s far easier to anecdotally call people out then back it up with data. It will be interesting to see how much pressure CSO will get from advertisers to do just that. Or whether they’ll be calling out specific vendors instead of focusing on bogus trends.

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