Worried - justified or not?7 Sep 2019 08:59
In previous posts, I said that I thought that Crossword Cybersecurity's Rizikon Assurance 2.0 gave Crossword a huge advantage over Falanx.
I had forgotten about Falanx's Project Furnace (and no one reminded me about it. I post on here to stimulate discussion, but failed on that one.)
"Project Furnace is the evolution of Falanx's investment in the creation of a highly capable technology stack. Furnace allows users to span the rapidly growing array of public and private Cloud, currently used by enterprise. By exploiting our many years of SOC (Security Operations Centre) experience, we have built a best of breed microservice architecture to provide enterprise and their in-house developers the tools to plug dangerous security gaps that have emerged during the rapid proliferation of Cloud. Built from best of breed components, technology acquired as part of the Cloudified acquisition and our proprietary service architecture MidGARD, Project Furnace has reached a level of maturity whereby an opportunity now exists to replace large-scale proprietary application stacks. Our aim is to offer enterprise the output of Project Furnace to assist them in improving performance, visibility of risks and greatly reducing costs regardless of the location or type of data."
So the people at Falanx are not sitting idly by - they are developing a rival system.
However, Crossword has released several updates about milestones in the progress of Rizikon. It seems to be a success.
The lack of similar announcements from FLX about Project Furnace has me worried. Is it a flop? Does it have flaws? Has it gone way over budget and the cost of removing flaws is going to be huge?
Have they delayed the results in the hope that the flaws (which might not exist!) can be ironed out, so that they don't have to say that another x million will be needed to make it work?
Please let me know if there has been an announcement about successful testing, or even a rollout, that I missed.