Time To Rally Around NetSecOPEN

It's certainly tough on their employees - especially in the current climate - but as Dark Reading reports overnight NSS Labs has finally ceased operations.

It's no surprise. The model that broke user dependence on vendor test sheets has itself been broken for a long time.

As with any new idea that runs out of steam and gets overtaken by better ones, it's time now for market actors to switch horses decisively. It's time for network security vendors to really put their shoulder to the wheel and rally behind the far more open, transparent, lower cost independent network security product testing model supported by NetSecOPEN.

HardenStance has been an active supporter of NetSecOPEN for the last three years. Earlier this year we published "A New Era in Trusted Network Security Testing", a White Paper about NetSecOPEN sponsored by Spirent Communications.

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I encourage network security vendors, test houses and other ecosystem players to direct their energies into the NetSecOPEN model that is driving more reliable, more credible, lower cost assessments of network security product performance.

I also encourage large users to organize themselves - partner, collaborate, get on the phone, come up with joint funding models - to find ways to participate in NetSecOPEN and ensure their voice is loudly and consistently heard and acted upon as its testing standards and methodologies are developed.

Let's go.

Patrick Donegan, Principal Analyst, HardenStance.