UnWhite Papers

Having spent months drafting the “standard security industry white paper”, we decided in the final analysis not to bother publishing it, for three reasons:

• 1

  The world already has way too many white papers and far too little actual cyber security or said another way, the white paper to cyber security effectiveness ratio is disturbingly low.

• 2

  If you’ve ever a read security white paper, you already know that they generally oscillate between saying nothing and saying nothing using allot of technocratic jargon (and who said obfuscation had no role in cyber security…).

• 3

  Every cyber-security vendor’s white papers say the same thing, namely that their technology is better because…blah blah and that they are ‘anti-this and ‘can stop that’, making it absurdly onerous to differentiate the ‘pretenders’ from the ‘contenders’ by simply reading the pithy missive of marketing departments.

So why bother? After all, cyber security is very simple, isn’t it? Can the good guys stop the bad guys or not? That’s the great thing about a results orientation; it strips away the ‘noise’ of story telling and exposes ‘the truth’ by evaluating action. And the results of FN’s actions, our technology’s ability to stop real threats, all real threats to the compromise of user data, speak louder than any stories we could tell in a white paper.