FN: Snake Oil or Strong Medicine

So we thought we would go ahead and address certain somewhat casual but non-the-less disturbing comments about our company head on. Specifically, FN and its products have been referred to as gasp…Snake Oil on several occasions, which we actually have gotten a pretty good chuckle out of, given FN’s strong ethical hacking results to date and the anemic ability of existing solutions to do the same. Obvious facts aside, we thought it might be helpful to frame the discussion a little, to add a little objectivity to the discourse, so penned a blog post in mid-September and polled some of the leading thought leaders in online security for their views. You can see the original post here (create link to http://www.federatednetworks.com/fn-snake-oil-or-strong-medicine/#more-513).

The results ar in and eight respondents chose to respond directly to the poll and teir views are:

1. 62% say FN is the real deal ie strong medicine, not snake oil
2. 25% are undecided
3. 13% think FN is Snake Oil boo…hiss..actaully not. We welcome the opportunity to convince people we are the real thing and once we launch our product that should be a heck of allot easier…

Furher, in speaking more deeply to a number respondents one clear (and fair)message came thru – real the FN product (pun intended).

So what do you think – cast your vote and leave your comments, good, bad or otherwise – trust us, we have thick skins…

Also, what can we do to convince you that we are the real deal, other than releasing our product, which I can assure you we are working 24/7…

Thanks in advance for your thoughts.