Victims have an incentive to keep it quiet, while vendors of security solutions have an incentive to talk it up.
Tyco International's ADT Security Services unit, a leading vendor of airport security systems, said it would add face recognition technology to its surveillance offerings.
Eugene Kaspersky is one of Russia's most famous entrepreneurs and presides over Kaspersky Lab, the world's largest privately owner vendor of software security products.
DB Networks competes with a host of security vendors, including F-Secure, Symantec, McAfee and Trend Micro.
Standing merrily among the hundreds of security vendors pitching souped-up firewalls and secure cloud solutions on an expo floor on Tuesday, the convicted-hacker-cum-security-consultant Kevin Mitnick recounted some of his exploits of yesteryear.
Securing the games requires the collective effort of security vendors and publishers.
But vendors underplay the issues of security and encryption, introduce needless incompatibilities and offer documentation that stops well short of explaining what's necessary to get everything running properly.
The moves by HP and Extreme are an admission that they're trailing Cisco and Juniper in this area, and further evidence that customers are looking for more from vendors in the way of security.
One of the more interesting aspects of this service is that Google is also partnering with a number of security vendors like Cloudflare, CrowdStrike, RedLock, Palo Alto Networks and Qualys to detect DDoS attacks, policy violations, network intrusions and other threats. .
Like Goliath, their heavy armor of bureaucracy weighs them down, and even as they try, no existing entity can bring all vendors to become the "Switzerland" of security.
