From: crazy frog crazy frog (i.m.crazy.frog@gmail.com)
Date: Mon Mar 12 2007 - 11:04:33 EST
Alfred,
Congrates on completing the 7 years of securityfocus.your post was
motivating and shows the dedication and efforts you have put to build
securityfocus.com.i hope that securityfocus will continue on the path
of the success and help everyone to share and learn.(no wonder i take
you as idol)
Regards,
_CF
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On 3/9/07, Alfred Huger <alfred_huger@symantec.com> wrote:
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> Warning - This is a message directed to the SecurityFocus community and not
> directly related to a running thread on this list - please delete it if you
> are not interested in this community administrivia.
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> Nearly seven years ago on a long ride home on Interstate 280 in the San
> Francisco Bay Area, I decided it was time to leave my job. Not because I
> disliked my current job but because it lacked some of the things I've always
> loved about the industry. It lacked a broad sense of community and a
> coordinated, steady stream of new and important information. This
> realization wasn't an indictment of my then employer, I simply came to
> recognize that there was an empty space that a company focused strictly on
> product solutions was unlikely to fill.
>
> In my mind there was a need to create a new type of security community, one
> where information was shared between everyone, not just individuals on
> scattered lists and bulletin boards. I knew that the creation of this type
> of community would take a fair amount of work and rather than attempting to
> do it myself, I enlisted a number of friends who shared the same vision. Our
> shared goal was to build to build a community in which everyone could take
> part. After a few months of hard work and long hours, SecurityFocus was
> born.
>
> Our first order of business was to meet the needs of the community and
> towards that we built SecurityFocus.com, with the Bugtraq mailing list as
> its centerpiece. When the site went live it originally had a small community
> of 30,000 email subscribers and a modest web presence that generated 1500
> unique visitors per day. It was from this base that we set out to build a
> vital community driven by new security content, dialogue and interaction
> between all members of the security community.
>
> Fast-forward seven years and I think I can comfortably say we've done pretty
> well. We now exceed 500,000 subscribers to our lists and our web presence
> has grown to several million unique visitors a month. SecurityFocus has
> grown into the site we had originally envisioned and more. Today, careers
> are found, products and ideas are developed from our forum and list
> discussions and more importantly, SecurityFocus continues to be the central
> location for our community to thrive and grow.
>
> How do we plan to celebrate our seventh anniversary? The same as the
> previous six - quietly and with an eye towards the future. After seven
> years, the question that comes to my mind is "where do we go from here?" I
> think that one of the reasons why the SecurityFocus community has done as
> well as it has is because we've solicited feedback on where you felt it
> needed to go. On our seventh anniversary, I think it's only fitting that we
> continue to come back to you - the community, and ask what we need to do to
> continue to make SecurityFocus the place for discussion, innovation and
> growth in security.
>
> What are the security needs, services and information that we should be
> providing to the community? Your suggestions and opinions have always been
> the driving force behind SecurityFocus and on our seventh birthday, I'd like
> to invite you to contact me directly with your suggestions. Send me some
> email and let's discuss where you think SecurityFocus should be headed.
>
> So, what's next? That's up to you.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Al Huger
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