Classical Enterprise Network Security vs Zero Trust

Opinions are my own and not those of my employer. While it’s been 6 years since I left Cisco to join Google, it’s interesting to realize that even back then, the 2 companies approached network security in very different ways. Snort and Enterprise Network Security I previously worked at SourceFire (which was acquired by Cisco) on their network security equipment. Their core software, Snort, is effectively a deep packet inspection tool with pattern matching (it’s a lot more, but that is the high-level). Snort relies on seeing packet data to work effectively. I very much believed in the product during my tenure (and continued to after I left). ...

July 3, 2021 · 4 min