Cisco Security Predictions – Reviewed

We recently released the Cisco 2009 Annual Security Report. This is the most recent edition of our security report series, which was started in December of 2007 and now includes both annual and midyear reports. These documents primarily seek to do two things: to help you understand the threats and security events that existed during the report time frame, and to provide you with appropriate guidance on how we believe threats will evolve in the coming year.
I am not one who admires the pontification often performed by security experts and I assure you that any forward-looking guidance we write is intended solely to help you understand the emerging security threats. I believe in looking into the past with a critical eye and understanding how we could have done better.
With that in mind, the release of our 2009 annual report has reminded me to take a few minutes and review our past guidance, and naturally, evaluate our results.