"What do you want to ask?" Liu Xiao went out and stopped, waiting for Shang Yue behind him to keep up.

The two of them walked towards the company's office area together, Shang Yue asked, "What's going on with that strategy matrix of yours?", Shang Yue knew that Liu Xiao had built such a host array, but he didn't know what it was for, and he saw the effect and effect just now, so he was interested.

"This!" Liu Xiao smiled and said in a low voice: "In fact, it is ten hosts installed with our policy-level firewall program, making a ring network, which is equivalent to connecting these ten hardware firewalls together." I have modified the rules of the firewall, when the first firewall can't completely handle the garbage data sent, it will let the garbage data that can't be processed pass directly through himself and hand it over to the second firewall for processing, and the second firewall still can't completely dispose of it, so let some of it pass, and so on, until all the garbage data is distributed and disposed of!"

"So that's what happened!" Shang Yue finally understood, "How did you come up with it!"

"Actually, it's nothing!" Liu Xiao waved his hand, "Today I'm just testing it, it looks pretty good, the four hosts will completely digest each other's garbage data, and we will have to continue to improve it in the future, so that this strategy matrix can have some other functions, otherwise no customers will buy it, and the cost is too high!" Liu Xiao smiled.

"It's better to have one to do the work of ten. Shang Yue also laughed, "Then this product of ours must be invincible!"

Liu Xiao just smiled and didn't speak, in fact, his strategy matrix was not a whim, when he made the first strategic product, he began to think about how to improve and double the performance of the strategic product, but unfortunately there was no specific idea. Recently, he had a premonition that the hacker's attack on the soft alliance was coming, and he spent more time thinking about it, and he hoped to improve the performance of the product as soon as possible to ensure that it could withstand the bombardment of the other party.

In the past few days, he has been sorting out his report on the development history of cyber warfare and future network security trends, and collected various information related to computers, including the development history of CPU, the development of CPU from single core to dual core, and even quad core, so that Liu Xiao suddenly came to inspiration, this architecture can be used on firewalls, when one firewall is not enough to support the need, you can start double firewalls.

Reminiscent of his creativity when designing the policy level, Liu Xiao thought that the firewall could be done better, and these single firewall programs can actually be regarded as a big rule, when two or more big rules are combined together, more policies should be made, so Liu Xiao came up with the idea of interconnecting the firewall to form a large policy array. It's a pity that the soft alliance is not like Intel, it does not have strong hardware development capabilities, and the hackers do not leave time for the soft alliance, so Liu Xiao had to keep everything simple and make a series of firewall arrays, for which he also specially ordered a communication device from Huawei to switch between the ring network and the tree network. Today's matrix was tested for the first time, and it was a success, which made Liu Xiao full of confidence in his idea, as long as he cooperated with Huawei in the future, let them design a reasonable architecture, and compress the matrix composed of ten hosts into one.

The two walked to the office area and went their separate ways. A few minutes later, the website of the soft alliance was updated, and the price of the hardware firewall soared from 300,000 US dollars to 400,000 US dollars.

Subsequently, the soft alliance issued a new announcement again, Haicheng today had a large-scale hacker attack, which directly led to the loss of links between Haicheng and the outside network, and the loss is currently being assessed, and the soft alliance suggested that the relevant parties strengthen network security measures. The personal security system of the soft alliance has also been updated with new content, adding these two announcements, as long as the network is connected, all users will be updated at the first time, but users within Haicheng can be updated at this time, as in Estonia before, now Haicheng's network has become a big "local area network".

After the financial department notified the employees of the settlement network management department of the rewards, Liu Xiao walked out of the company, ran to the street, walked into some banks, shopping malls, stock exchanges, and even some other office buildings, and investigated everyone's reaction after the network outage, as well as the difficulties and losses suffered, these data are very helpful for his recent research.

Three hours later, Haicheng's network was finally connected, and because of the announcement of the Soft Alliance, many Haicheng people already knew what was going on. The Haicheng government issued a ZF announcement as soon as the network was restored, informing the cause of the network accident just now: After the hacker attack in Estonia, Haicheng actively learned a lesson, strengthened its own network, and sent special personnel to take care of it 24 hours a day. The network outage, not that ZF did not do its best, measures are not in place, but that the hacker's attack data is too large, far exceeding the load capacity of the communication equipment, resulting in the paralysis and collapse of the equipment, at present, Haicheng ZF in addition to repairing the damaged equipment, but also urgently purchased more spare equipment, such incidents will not occur again in the future.

Even if it is only three hours, Haicheng's losses are not small, all network-related activities have come to a standstill, banks cannot transfer, cross-regional access is not available, the stock market cannot be traded, enterprises relying on network office are suspended, online electronic transactions cannot be carried out, and there are many large web portals and commercial websites that put the main server in Haicheng, they also have varying degrees of losses.

The news quickly spread out from Haicheng's network, coupled with the announcement of the soft alliance, almost all netizens across the country knew about the accident that happened in Haicheng. After being surprised, people began to turn over the old accounts, and the security companies that slandered the soft alliance were pulled out to criticize, as Fang Guokun predicted at the time, these companies were scolded to the point of blood, and became synonymous with the word shameless, they were incompetent, they couldn't predict hacker attacks, and they had to maliciously slander others.

When Liu Xiao returned to the company from outside, it was almost time to get off work, and Liu Xiao's purse was already filled with a lot of data collected today.

"Mr. Liu!" The head of the business department caught a glimpse of Liu Xiao at a glance and chased him out of his office, "Mr. Liu, what should we do now?"

"Do it according to the previous discussion!" Liu Xiao smiled, "Immediately send all our salesmen, including the salesmen of the branch, to lobby the ZF departments in various places and let them purchase our products!"

"I've already notified you, and everyone is ready, just waiting for your words!" The head of the business department smiled, "To be honest, I'm starting to like those hackers who are secretly doing it now, and if they do it once, we can get a lot of money!"

"We and those hackers were originally the same ancestor!" Liu Xiao smiled, "Okay, let's do it quickly, strike while the iron is hot!"

"Okay!" the head of the business department responded, turned around and went to his office, "You can rest assured!"

Liu Xiao shook his head, returned to his office, and began to sort out and analyze the data collected today.

The next day at work, Liu Xiao just came out of the elevator, and the reception MM greeted him, "Mr. Liu, two people came, saying that they wanted to talk to you about a business!"

"Just let them go to the business department!" Liu Xiao said casually.

"They have to see you!" MM said.

"Where are they?" asked Liu Xiao with a slight frown.

"In the small conference room!" MM replied.

"Okay, I'll go over and take a look, you can get busy!" Liu Xiao waved his hand and walked towards the small conference room. When I knocked on the door and entered, I saw two people inside, one was tall, standard European, and the other looked like Chinese.

"Hello, I'm Liu Xiao from the Soft Alliance!" Liu Xiao walked over and stretched out his hand to the two of them, "I don't know what the two of you are looking for me?"

After shaking his hand, the foreigner quickly took out his business card, "Hello, I am the general manager of the Chinese branch of the Sjeke Trading Company! This is my assistant!" The foreigner pointed to the person next to him.

"Fortunately, fortunately!" Liu Xiao stretched out his hand, "Please sit down!"

The three of them sat down, and the foreigner cleared his throat, "I came to the door this time to talk to Mr. Liu about cooperation!"

"Please speak!" Liu Xiao looked at the foreigner.

"Let me introduce it first! Our Skiko Trading Company is a Russian-funded company, headquartered in Moscow, we have a very solid market foundation in Russia, as well as a perfect sales network, and several commodities we represent have very good sales results in Russia. After speaking, the foreigner looked at Liu Xiao, "Today, we want to see if the soft alliance has any intention of expanding the Russian market, and we are very willing to help!"

"Thank you, thank you!" Liu Xiao looked puzzled, "It's just that I don't understand what cooperation you are talking about?"

"We are willing to act as an agent for the sale of your products in Russia!" explained the foreigner directly.

"I understand, you want to get our agency in the Russian market, right?" asked Liu Xiao.

"Yes!" the foreigner nodded, "Mr. Liu, we are a very powerful trading company, if you are willing to hand over the agency to us, we can guarantee to help you open the market in a very short time, and the annual sales will never be less than 100 million US dollars! What do you think?"

Liu Xiao shook his head, "I'm really sorry, I think you must not have noticed the announcement on our company's website, I am very grateful for your sincerity and heart, but unfortunately, we have set up an office in Russia, and we don't need an agent!"

The other party was obviously very surprised, but still said: "I really haven't paid attention to your company's website before, but I think that setting up a branch does not mean that your products can be sold in the Russian market." We have cooperated with ZF many times, and if you give us the agency, we will definitely be able to help your company get a sales license in the Russian market!"

Liu Xiao smiled and waved his hand, "You will be mistaken! A week ago, our soft alliance just held a press conference, if you pay attention, you must know that our soft alliance does not plan to sell our products in foreign markets! We set up an office not to sell products, but to find suitable security enterprises in Russia and carry out technology licensing. ”

The foreigner is a little embarrassed, this time he came in a hurry, the preparation work was too poor, this time it was a big ugly, it seems that the plans made in advance are not used at all.

Fortunately, the reception MM happened to come in to deliver tea at this time, so that she would not continue to be embarrassed.

Liu Xiao took the water cup and said to the reception MM: "You go to my office, in the second filing cabinet on the upper left, there is a yellow folder, please help me get it!"

MM went out for a while and came back, there was an extra yellow folder in his arms, Liu Xiao took it, opened it, flipped through it, and finally pulled out a page and handed it to the foreigner, "Please take a look! This is the sales license we obtained from the Russian zf!"

The foreigner took it and looked at it, and his face changed several colors, this document is absolutely true, with the seal of ZF and the signatures of relevant personnel, as well as the license serial number, it is true at a glance, but he can't figure it out, how can this be, if the soft alliance has already obtained the sales license, then the headquarters must know, but why is there no this most important news in the information provided to himself, otherwise he would not have such a failed plan.

The foreigner put down the document and sighed: "It seems that your company really doesn't need an agent!", he had to accept this fact, this license means that the soft alliance can go to the Russian market to sell products by itself, without the help of agents.

"Even so, I thank you very much for your sincerity!" Liu Xiao smiled and put the file into the folder again, "I hope we can have other opportunities for cooperation in the future!" Liu Xiao said this, which was a bit of a send-off.

"Mr. Liu!" The foreigner saw what Liu Xiao meant, so he was a little anxious, and said, "I still have something to say!"

"Please!"

"If you can't be your agent, it doesn't matter!hehe......" The foreigner smiled, "Our headquarters is very interested in your products, the hacker attack that happened in Russia a few days ago also caused some losses to our headquarters, so the headquarters decided to upgrade the company's network, your products perform well in Estonia, and are the preferred security products of the headquarters, you see this ......"

"Welcome, welcome!" Liu Xiao smiled, "It's really our honor that your company can take a fancy to our products!" After speaking, Liu Xiao asked tentatively: "I don't know how many sets of our products your company is going to purchase?"

The foreigner stretched out a finger, "Is a set okay?", Xingshi moved the crowd to come to the door, indicating that he wanted to talk to the other party's boss in person, but in order to order a set of products, when he said this, the foreigner himself felt weak, so he was powerless to say it.

Liu Xiao shook his head again and again, "No, we only make more than 1,000 sets of orders, this is the company's regulations!"

The foreigner was very surprised, and looked at Liu Xiao in surprise, I don't know what this regulation means, isn't one set a business?

Liu Xiao explained: "The personal market and the enterprise market are small and cumbersome, our company is just a small company, and there is not so much manpower to do this, so we have to give up this market and concentrate on the big customer market, please understand more." ”

The foreigner is stupid now, can he really not do anything this time?

Liu Xiao stood up and stretched out his hand, "I'm really sorry! However, we will soon be able to find a suitable authorized company in Russia, and by that time, your company will be able to buy our products in Russia!"

No matter how thick-skinned the foreigner is, it's not good to stay still, so he stood up, "I'll ask the headquarters again to see if there will be additional purchases!"

"Okay, thank you again for your trust and love for our company!" Liu Xiao politely sent the two people out of the company, and then sneered at the elevator with disdain, Liu Xiao understood very well that the Sjeke company that came today is definitely not an ordinary enterprise, and after coming, there was no superfluous word, and went straight to the agency, which shows how well they know the performance of SoftAlliance's products. And the firewall products of the soft alliance, so far, have only been sold to Estonia, they are so confident, there are only two possibilities, either they have attacked Estonia, or they are the masterminds behind yesterday's attack on the soft alliance, even if not, it is absolutely inseparable from those hackers, in addition, Liu Xiao can't think of a third possibility.

"Damn, I still want to deceive Lao Tzu!" Liu Xiao pinched his nose, these two guys first wanted agency, nothing more than wanting to take advantage of the convenience of the agent, take a low price, or take away a batch of goods first, and then say that only one set of products will be purchased, then it will be even more hateful, it is estimated that they want to take it back and crack it!" "Don't think that Lao Tzu is kind, so he really treats me as a HelloKitty!"

Liu Xiao returned to his office, and as soon as he sat down with his buttocks, he heard two "bang" knocks on the door, and then the door was pushed open.

"Why are you, Brother Huangxing!" Liu Xiao quickly stood up, "Please take a seat!"

"Don't sit down yet!" Huang Xing walked to Liu Xiao's desk in a few steps, took out a document from his briefcase, and slapped it on the table, "Look at this!"

Liu Xiao was a little puzzled, picked up the document and looked at it, and found that this was a ZF procurement contract, which indicated that it was to purchase security products, and the procurement unit was the General Administration of Internet Supervision of the Ministry of Public Security, "What does this mean?" Liu Xiao asked, this did not write what specific products to procure, nor did it write how many copies to procure.

"Haicheng has had such a big network security accident three times in a year, and the above attaches great importance to it, and now our network supervisor is going to upgrade its own network, and I want to purchase your products, no problem, right?" Huang Xing smiled.

"No problem, no problem!" Liu Xiao hurriedly came out from behind the desk, "I can't ask for it!

"But how many sets of your products you want to purchase depends on what price you give!" Huang Xing took off his police hat, then sat on the sofa, crossed Erlang's legs, and said with a smile: "I can tell you, don't use any company regulations to prevaricate me, you must give me an extremely favorable price today, otherwise, I won't give you this list!"

"That's natural!" Liu Xiao smiled, "How dare I ask you for a high price, you say, what price do you want?"

"I see, your products seem to have risen again, a security suit, including a hardware wall and a professional version of security software, will cost 400,000 US dollars!" Huang Xing smiled, "I said that you really dare to ask for a price! But our yamen is relatively poor, so we can only give this number, what do you think?", Huang Xing finished speaking, stretching out four fingers.

"Forty thousand?" Liu Xiao asked.

"That's right! 40,000!" Huang Xing nodded.

"Dollars?" Liu Xiao asked again.

"Bah!" Huang Xing glared at Liu Xiao, "Do you think I seem to be the master who can take out US dollars?"

"Huh?" Liu Xiao immediately made a bitter gourd face, "You guys cut the price too much, you have to let us keep it!"

"Anyway, at this price, it depends on whether you do it or not!" Huang Xing looked indifferent and looked at Liu Xiao with a smile.

"Then how many sets do you want?" Liu Xiao gritted his teeth, "Don't open your mouth if you don't have it, I can't explain it to the people in the company!"

"This number!" Huang Xing stretched out a hand and flipped it forward and backwards, "100,000 sets!"

"So many?" Liu Xiao was dumbfounded, can only one network supervision department use so many sets, only one country in Estonia needs 1,800 sets, this network supervision must be armed to the teeth!

"I heard that you are sending people to lobby ZF in various places, and you want them to purchase your products?" Huang Xing twitched the corners of his mouth and put on a meaningful smile, "If you take this list, our network regulatory commission will issue a formal red-headed document, suggesting that all ZF departments in various places give priority to your products in the future network security transformation, how about it?"

"Okay, deal!" Liu Xiao pondered, then gritted his teeth and settled, "But the amount of goods you want is too large, and we will deliver it several times!"

"That's no problem!" Huang Xing smiled, then pointed to the desk, "We have already stamped the list, you can make up the name and quantity yourself in a while, and we will probably give you a deposit tomorrow!" After Huang Xing finished speaking, he picked up his police hat and put it on again, "Okay, since the matter is decided, I'll leave first!"

"No, what are you doing in such a hurry!" Liu Xiao hurriedly stopped, "It's been a long time, I'll invite you to dinner at noon!"

"Excuse me, but it's okay at night!" Huang Xing smiled, "There is such a big accident in Haicheng, can I not be there, I came today to participate in their accident appraisal meeting! Now the time is almost up, I have to rush over!"

Liu Xiao couldn't stop it now, so he had to say: "Then it's decided, I'll invite you to dinner in the evening!"