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Cisco Evolving Into A Security Company

ChipGuy writes "Om Malik has an opinion piece stating his opinion that Cisco Systems is slowly becoming a security company, a move which may prove problematic for traditional security vendors like Symantec. Cisco has bought its way into the market, worried about the security moves of its main rival, Juniper Networks. The company expects to make major announcements at the RSA Conference later this week. "

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  1. Elliptic curves by 2.7182 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Apparently they are very intersted in elliptic curve cryptography.

  2. Kind of like by Dachannien · · Score: 4, Funny

    Cisco is becoming a security company - sort of like how Microsoft is becoming a security company.

  3. Re:The [job] security company? by shreevatsa · · Score: 2, Funny

    I live in Bangalore, you insensitive clod!

  4. Re:Heh by KinkifyTheNation · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's why they invented ACs.

  5. Ads by mattthateeguy · · Score: 3, Funny

    I love how the ad that popped up above this article was a Cisco ad.

  6. Private Policemen by itsthebin · · Score: 2, Funny

    Cisco in Singaporehttp://www.cisco.com.sg/ is already a security company. They provide private policemen , armoured transport and have control over much of Singapores electronic infrastructure. They do have their fingers in more than just producing routers.

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  7. Re:The Year 2000 wants it's headline back. by TeknoHog · · Score: 2, Funny

    The grammar called, it want's it's apostrophe's back.

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  8. Yes there is by anti-NAT · · Score: 2, Funny
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    The Internet's nature is peer to peer - 20050301_cs_profs.pdf