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What's the deal with the Barracuda offer for Sourcefire?

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2008-05-30 00:45:14 by ashimmy in StillSecure, After All These Years
...offer of $7.50 a share (in cash) for Sourefire. This values Sourcefire at about 200 million dollars and is a 13% premium over the Friday closing price. Of course this is well below Sourcefire's historical highs, but than again who is worth what they were a few months ago. I have a chart on the left that shows stock prices So what is behind...
 
Tags: sourcefire, barracuda offer, barracuda, offer, sourcefire board, sourcefire management team, million, dean, reason dean takes
 
 
 
 
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What's the deal with the Barracuda offer for Sourcefire?

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2008-05-29 23:50:21 by HASH0x8b56034 in StillSecure, After All These Years
...offer of $7.50 a share (in cash) for Sourefire. This values Sourcefire at about 200 million dollars and is a 13% premium over the Friday closing price. Of course this is well below Sourcefire's historical highs, but than again who is worth what they were a few months ago. I have a chart on the left that shows stock prices So what is behind...
 
Tags: sourcefire, dean, reason dean takes, sourcefire management team, barracuda, dean drako, values sourcefire, trend micro suit, suit
 
 
 
 
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The Not-So-Sweet Life of Supplicants

2008-07-23 15:23:00 by JJ in Security Uncorked
 
...offer options and configurations not currently available in native OS supplicants. (For example, both offer the GINA shim for integrating Windows 1X login with Novell as well as multiple profile support.) Although I havent tried it, my understanding is you can still operate both of these clients independent of the controllers provided from...
 
Tags: user, end-user interactions, user experience, machine andor user, users, multiple unique users, user expectations, endpoint, expectations
 
 
 
 
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Q&A with Barry Cummings, InteropNet Help Desk Lead

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2008-07-23 13:31:29 by Louis DiMeglio in ScienceLogic
...offer services all the way from Layer 1 to desktop support ScienceLogic: How long have you been involved with Interop Cummings: I attended my first show in 1996 . I volunteered for my first shown in 1999 and havent missed a year since ScienceLogic: What makes you want to come back each year for the additional punishment Cummings: Working with...
 
Tags: barry cummings, cummings, desk, sciencelogic, service desk, management system em7, management, em7, team lead
 
 
 
 
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IT Vendor VAR Relationships 101

2008-05-31 20:52:07 by JJ in Security Uncorked
 
...offer 2-4 tiers of partner programs depending on those 2 things, and each tier may have a different discount offered to the Reseller Commodity items may just require a Reseller to request to be in the Partner Program, and sign a couple of documents. More involved products, such as the network and security products we deal with, usually...
 
Tags: manufacturer, manufacturer directly, manufacturer partners, specific, specific product line, manufacturer sales rep, reseller, manufacturer relationship, resellers relationship
 
 
 
 
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Obstacles For Information Security & Risk Management

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2008-03-06 13:51:34 by Alex in RiskAnalys.is
...offer that this mode of thinking is not only an offense against Deming proverb #3 here, its also a sin against #1, 2, and 4 4. Excuses, such as Our problems are different ding*ding*ding*ding*ding We * have * to get over ourselves. I would offer that we must humbly view ourselves as just are another area of operational risk, without pretense...
 
Tags: risk, lesser category, demings lesser category, obstacles, operational risk, data, consumer data, industry, prescriptive isms
 
 
 
 
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What would you do with Ballmer's letter if you were a Yahoo shareholder

2008-05-03 23:24:54 by HASH0x8b6f148 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...offer for Yahoo. I had a look at the letter Steve Ballmer sent to Jerry Yang officially withdrawing the offer and offering his reasons why. Must say that it is rare that a document like this is made public. I must also say that if I were a Yahoo shareholder, it would be a key piece of evidence when I sued Jerry Yang and the rest of the Yahoo...
 
Tags: yahoo, yahoo shareholder, yang, sued jerry yang, microsoft, ballmer, force microsoft, jerry yang, microsoft evidently
 
 
 
 
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The New Threat Modeling Process

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2007-10-02 01:15:35 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
...offer self-checks. Ill talk in the next post about why those three elements are so important to me. For now, let me describe the process One of the largest changes that weve made is to a simplified process (and diagram). I like to say that this looks pretty much like every other software process diagram you see today. Thats intentional....
 
Tags: process, threat, process validation entails, threat model, software process diagram, people, people trust boundaries, love threat, hamster wheel
 
 
 
 
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More trustworthy election systems via SDL?

2008-02-04 23:34:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...offer this special post for Super Tuesday given the subject matter. Hope you enjoy This year is a presidential election year in the United States. Selecting a new president is perhaps the ultimate example of the importance of having a trustworthy election process. There have been some well chronicled examples of elections with extremely close...
 
Tags: machine security concerns, security concerns, election systems, election, security, security researchers, election systems margin, margin, election management system