Anyone that knew anything about security knew that Norse was full of it. Norse is a shining example of how little information most people have about the security products and services they buy. It's all marketing, and it leads to more snake oil than not.
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#12Remember a wave of personal firewall products around 2005? zonealarm/norton/mcafee all had those sexy "security" popups/notifications about IP x.x.x.x HAXORING you with ICMP packet.
This is what Norse offers, but repackaged for clueless executives instead.
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#13Remember a wave of personal firewall products around 2005? zonealarm/norton/mcafee all had those sexy "security" popups/notifications about IP x.x.x.x HAXORING you with ICMP packet. This is what Norse offers, but repackaged for clueless executives instead.
BlackICE defender was hot stuff for my NT4 clusters.
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#14Anyone that knew anything about security knew that Norse was full of it. Norse is a shining example of how little information most people have about the security products and services they buy. It's all marketing, and it leads to more snake oil than not.
Let's not forget when Norse named a fictional person named "Lena" as the person who perpetrated the Sony hack in 2014 based on "Open-Source analysis" of the leaks.
http://gawker.com/researcher-sony-hack-was-likely-an-inside-...
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#15Doing serious due diligence when joining a startup is always a good advise.
From the fine article: "The data scientist said she vetted Norse’s founders prior to joining the firm, but that it wasn’t until she was fired at the beginning of 2016 that she started doing deeper research into the company’s founders. “I realized that, oh crap, I think this is a scam,” Landesman said. “They’re trying to draw this out and tap into whatever the buzzwords du jour there are, and have a product that’s goi…
For many people "serious due diligence" is a Google search.
Relationships between people, even business ones, are based on trust. You'll rarely know if someone deserves your trust by the time you have to give it to them, so it's more important to realize whats actually going on then to be lulled into a false sense of security for how you think someone is.
It amazes me that in so many of these stories the people who got hurt, usually employees or investors, will just stand around afterwards with their hands in their pockets saying how smart the perpetrators are and how they were fooled. It isn't that this particular situation has no guarantees, it's that their are few to no guarantees in life (especially when money is changing hands).
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#16"Those sources say the company’s investors have told employees that they can show up for work on Monday but that there is no guarantee they will get paid if they do."
Is that even legal?
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
From the fine article: "The data scientist said she vetted Norse’s founders prior to joining the firm, but that it wasn’t until she was fired at the beginning of 2016 that she started doing deeper research into the company’s founders. “I realized that, oh crap, I think this is a scam,” Landesman said. “They’re trying to draw this out and tap into whatever the buzzwords du jour there are, and have a product that’s goi…
For many people "serious due diligence" is a Google search. Relationships between people, even business ones, are based on trust. You'll rarely know if someone deserves your trust by the time you have to give it to them, so it's more important to realize whats actually going on then to be lulled into a false sense of security for how you think someone is. It amazes me that in so many of these stories the people who g…
When I mentioned "serious due diligence" I didn't mean Google search. I should have spelled it out. When a founder is neither a well-known person nor someone you know personally very well, the answer is a background check done by a professional.
Of course there is no guarantee, I'm talking about being prudent and improving your odds.
Finally, I personally know how it feels being employed by a startup founded by a con artist.
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#18"Those sources say the company’s investors have told employees that they can show up for work on Monday but that there is no guarantee they will get paid if they do." Is that even legal?
To tell people not to come in because there is no money?