{"id":584,"date":"2004-11-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2004\/11\/09\/small-vendors-issue-security-challenge-to-large-competitors\/"},"modified":"2021-12-30T11:37:45","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T11:37:45","slug":"small-vendors-issue-security-challenge-to-large-competitors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/?p=584","title":{"rendered":"Small Vendors Issue Security Challenge To Large Competitors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four vendors of application security products have created an alliance to challenge the ability of large-scale vendors&#8211;such as Check Point Software Technologies, Cisco Systems, Juniper Networks, McAfee, and Symantec&#8211;to protect customers from hacker attacks and other security breaches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Their stated goal is to promote more consistent metrics for customers to evaluate products.<\/p>\n<p>The situation, as these upstarts describe it, is a growing market for Web application security&#8211;which the Yankee Group tags at $2 billion over the next five years&#8211;and suspect claims from vendors about the capabilities of their products.<\/p>\n<p>In a prepared statement, the foursome suggests that some vendors are selling security short.  &#8220;We are united regarding the minimum criteria that any security product must meet to provide acceptable protection for mission-critical Web applications,&#8221; the companies state.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s pretty remarkable that these companies have come together,&#8221; says James Slaby, an analyst with the Yankee Group.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.informationweek.com\/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=J3XAEQLVWKL4KQSNDBNCKHSCJUMEKJVN?articleID=52600320<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3071,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions\/3071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}