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Cisco's keynote starts with the traditional eyeball gouging
"humorous" video making fun of how it's hard to get different
security solutions to work together. Wouldn't it be easier if
everyone just bought everything from Cisco? I'm sure it would! The
video ends with all the actors cursing at the audience, which is
telling, and then Christopher Young apologizing for the video, like
it's the first time he's ever seen it and he's sorry for subjecting
the audience to the cursing parts of it, or, you know, any of the
"jokes". <br>
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After that it is a painful sit-down between Christopher Young (SVP
of Cisco's Security Business Group) and Padmasree Warrior (CTO/Chief
Strategy Officer of Cisco). Why do companies do these sit-down style
keynotes? It's like someone did a study on the most unlikely way to
capture an audience's attention, and then implemented it as
relentlessly as a Chinese SSHD password brute forcer. <br>
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At one point Padma says "I'm not a security expert and you are,
which is why I hired you". The Chief Strategy Officer of Cisco is
not a security expert?! Lovely.<br>
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These things are scripted to sound unscripted, but instead they
sound like horribly written scripts delivered by people who hate
what they are saying. That, or there was some sort of contest on the
least funny way to say "Internet of Things" eighty times in 24
minutes - and let me tell you, they *found* it.<br>
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<a
href="http://www.drchaos.com/open-app-id-cisco-commits-to-open-source-and-application-identification/">Open
APP ID</a> gets announced to no applause whatsoever. "The policy
can be dynamic. We need a community working on that. " Or in other
words, "Please somebody do our work for us so we can catch up to
whoever the market leader is in this space". Marty might have to
explain this to us all in better terms on the list here, cause Padma
and Christopher chew their explanation up like a three year old
eating a Lima bean and Brussels sprouts salad. They want to build
controls for applications except the mobile systems they want to
control are not under enterprise control at all (they "assume the
devices are untrusted"), and the network traffic will be encrypted.
So how are they controlling things again? <br>
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In the end, these people got on stage to demonstrate that they have
a muddled thought process and no clear vision for the future. Look,
after watching this you can't help but feel sorry for everyone
involved in the production of this keynote, and the entire marketing
team the CEO of Cisco fired after watching it on YouTube. I'd worry
if I was either Padma or Christopher as well because they've clearly
lost sight of both the forest and trees, if this keynote is anything
to go by.<br>
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-dave<br>
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