The bottom line is that customers have all the power. Stop buying fragmented security point-solutions and magic bullets. Stop buying proprietary systems. Stop buying "end-to-end" security where both ends (and everything in between) have to be from the same vendor. Challenge insular vendors. Demand open standards and open protocols with support from multiple vendors, or take your money elsewhere. The security industry is broken and only customers can fix it.

in Network World's Wide Area Network section.