Re:Cisco plans to acquire cybersecurity firm Duo Security fo...
by peterwwillis on Thursday August 02, 2018 @03:49PM
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The culture didn't shift much post-Sourcefire, it just melded a bit. Everything they acquire becomes a little Cisco-y, depending on how big it was. Duo will become "Cisco-y Duo". But it may be more Cisco or Duo depending on the strength of the culture.
Talos is a good example: it was created from merging Cisco SIO and SourceFire VRT, but I would wager it's 80% VRT [in terms of culture]. They also have so many researchers now that it probably has sub-cultures. Even a single remote office can have its own culture.
Re:Cisco plans to acquire cybersecurity firm Duo Security fo...
by spike021 on Thursday August 02, 2018 @02:33PM
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>I assume in the post-Sourcefire Cisco game plan, Duo stays Duo.
Not overly surprisingly if so. Meraki, and in some ways OpenDNS, have stayed mostly their own with varying degrees of integration.
The reputation of Cisco's internal engineering culture used to be pretty grim. I never understood why any PM or lead would actually build something from a Cisco internal MRD, rather than jumping ship, building it privately, and selling it back to Cisco. I know of more than one person that did literally exactly that, successfully.
But post-Sourcefire I think it's a different scene there; they have some very large, long-lived teams with coherent cultures now. I assume in the post-Sourcefire Cisco game plan, Duo stays Duo.