"There is no business school class that would ever sit down and design Talos"
Summary: Cisco Talos marked its 10th anniversary by recounting its formation from Sourcefire, which Cisco acquired for $2.7 billion in July 2013, and the 2014 consolidation of the VRT, TRAC and SecApps teams under a single brand launched at BlackHat. The account describes early Sourcefire work where roughly 30 people reverse engineered 15 to 20 Patch Tuesday remote root bugs a month to write Snort rules, and later efforts including flying Cisco equipment into Ukraine and Joe Marshall's Project PowerUp work to keep the Ukrainian electrical grid running amid GPS jamming.
What's compelling: A team of about 30 people was, by this account, changing the security posture of Fortune 50 companies monthly - and executives from those companies were asking them to stop telling the public the truth, which is a reminder of how much pressure sits on the people who disclose what they find.
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