SecurityFocus No Longer Publishing InfoSec News
Over time sites grow and shrink in popularity and usefulness, either the userbase moves on to something else, or the site changes what it offers. In the last couple of weeks, the news section of Information Security stalwart, SecurityFocus, was shut down as site owners, Symantec, made a move to consolidate their online news and service offerings. Most of the products that SecurityFocus is best known for (such as the BugTraq mailing list) will continue to be maintained and offered via the SecurityFocus site, what has disappeared is the analysis and news reporting that the site used to offer, or at least it is disappearing from the SecurityFocus site.
With the increasing number of sites to have appeared over recent years, along with numerous Security blogs (what SecurityFocus essentially started out as), will the loss of this voice have much of an effect for the reporting and dissemination of Information Security news and analysis? It is doubtful that there will be a wide ranging effect, especially given that the same information will be available from Symantec sources, via Symantec Connect.
Rather than a complete loss of information, perhaps considering it a consolidation and rebranding would be a better point of view.
23 March 2010
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