I just saw another vendor’s core network router and firewall product rolled out to replace cloud native routing. It uses public IPs by default with open ports

I just saw another vendor’s core network router and firewall product rolled out to replace cloud native routing. It uses public IPs by default with open ports to the Internet to route previously internal-only isolated networks. It uses “military grade” 96 bit encryption (lol), and similarly had a nine-point-something CVE in that endpoint. It was forced upon us because apparently it was vital to encrypt the VM-to-VM intra-cloud traffic that was already mostly HTTPS. This cost merely millions of dollars and broke a bunch of stuff, slowed down that which it didn’t break, and had several brownouts and outages in just a few months since it was rolled out. IT security is mostly snake oil sold by con-men.