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I'm sorry to tell you, but it would fail. Being too fast would preclude creating attachment through the sunk costs required to run it. The ease of use would let users quickly determine that the software can't do what they want. The low attack surface would avoid necessitating widespread organizational buy in. And the zero false positive rate would mean that it wouldn't move the needle on any metrics.


Haha, CSO's love to talk about how they blocked 3 million hacking attempts.

In what amounts to tallying up dropped icmp packets.


A long time ago at a previous job, I had to report monthly on metrics relating to firewall deny events. I got an angry phone call to my desk phone from an executive, demanding to know why firewall deny events were down 10% in the previous month. Their tone changed when I mentioned the month in question was February, which conveniently is about 10% shorter than January.




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