About Us
About The Site
 The Talisker site was originally built in 1999.  It was then mirrored from networkintrusion.co.uk to securitywizardry.com in 2003.    The site quickly grew, becoming ever more popular.  It is widely regarded as the sole Internet resource for finding unbiased security product listings.   The site's audience is truly global, there aren't any Nations that haven't been represented in the logs over the years. We do resell certain products through partnership agreements, though we are careful to ensure that this activity does not influence the site.  

 

How the site came about - The site began life as a single page detailing all the commercial IDS products. There were already a few IDS lists out there, but many products listed would be out of date or obsolete, there were also a few good products which they did not include.  So the Talisker site was born. 

Why?  Andy Cuff (Site Founder) was looking for the ideal IDS solution for the Royal Air Force, rather than choose one of the "Market Leading 4 products" he considered every available product, suspecting that the "not so obvious #5 product" could be the ideal IDS to use.  This list of available products was uploaded to the web and some of the seasoned IDS experts were invited to see whether any were missing, the response was good and before long a few had linked to it and from there it grew.

Radar Page

The Radar on Internet Threat page has proved extremely popular, especially during periods of heightened tension where we experience hit rates of 12K/hour.

 

 

25 Jan 2006 President Bush can be seen standing in front of our radar page during his visit to the National Security Agency (NSA) at Fort Meade, the NSA is just one of our high profile visitors, though it is very rare that we see inside their operations centres. The footage of this visit was seen on CNN, NBC and featured by a host of newspapers, from the US to China.  Many thanks to our supporters  for making us aware of our unexpected photo call.

 

 

 

 

 
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