Chapter Forty-Nine: Remake the Soft Alliance
"Grandma, how can this be!" Liu Xiao stood there scratching his head, the matter was a little tricky, but the trickier it was, the more excited Liu Xiao became, and now he was interested in participating in the exercise, and it was a rare opportunity to fight with the geniuses in Unit 140. Liu Xiao sent a message to Treading Snow without a Trace, "Master, can you be sure that Unit 140 will come to mix?"
"Now Haicheng has not yet been finalized, if it is really a combat exercise, it will most likely come. But 140 will come from the front, nothing to fear, according to the information I have received, there are some hacker groups that have started to act in advance, and they have already succeeded. ”
"No, so many elites in China don't eat dry rice, so it's not so easy to get it, right?" Liu Xiao didn't believe the news.
"That's the news I got! Open guns are easy to dodge, hidden arrows are difficult to defend, these hacker groups have different purposes than 140, they just want to prove their ability and expand their popularity, so they will use any trick. ”
Liu Xiao was a little puzzled, how could there be any news about the snow without a trace, there seemed to be nothing he didn't know, he even knew the inside story of the exercise, even the hacker organization's private actions he also knew, could it be that he still had clairvoyance and ears? Liu Xiao felt that the words of stepping on the snow without a trace had water, even if the other party wanted to succeed, it would have to wait until the exercise began.
"I've got to get busy!" Treading Snow sent a message, "I won't fight with you this time, anyway, I've tracked down your new location now, and I'll come to clean you up anytime I'm free, haha." ”
Liu Xiao didn't care about saying goodbye to Treading Snow without a trace, anyway, he always said flash, and it was useless to say goodbye. Liu Xiao thought carefully about what he had just said without a trace, he just wanted to know that the exercise had not yet begun, how could it be regarded as a success in advance? Liu Xiao thought about it and felt that there was only one thing, that is, lurking, as if the battle had not yet begun, and one of the parties had already entered the battlefield in advance to lay an ambush. But now Haicheng's network is heavily guarded, and it is almost impossible to sneak in from the front, so how did these hacker groups sneak in?
Liu Xiao's heart is tickled now, the more he can't figure it out, the more energetic he becomes, since others can lurk in, what about himself? Does he also have this ability? Liu Xiao really can't wait to compete with the other party now, but unfortunately he doesn't know who the other party is.
"I'm going to try it too?" Liu Xiao asked himself, making a decision in his heart.
As soon as he walked into the company the next day, Niu Pengen caught up, "Liu Xiao, have you seen those materials and samples, are there any suitable products for us?"
Liu Xiao let out an "oh", listless, obviously not sleeping well, "I haven't seen it yet, I'll go out and test the sample first." ”
"Go out?" Niu Pengen hurriedly asked, "Where to test?"
"Softalliance Technology!" Now that he has seen Lan Shenghua, Liu Xiao still wants to explain the reason why he didn't go to Softalliance by the way, "I just want to take a leave of absence." ”
"Can't you test it somewhere else?" Niu Pengen began to drum in his heart.
"SoftAlliance is professional and safe, they have the best test environment and equipment in China, and the data measured in other places will be biased. Liu Xiao explained.
"Oh......" Niu Pengen was still a little uneasy, "Then you can go...... Go and come back quickly!"
Liu Xiao responded, put the information in his office, and then took the samples to the soft alliance.
The reception MM at the door of the soft alliance suffered Liu Xiao's loss last time, so naturally he would not admit Liu Xiao wrong, and when he saw Liu Xiao coming in with a big box and a small box, he said: "Manager Liu is good!"
Liu Xiao smiled: "You are wrong again, I am not Manager Liu!"
"Uh......" The reception MM is stupid again, this is obviously the manager of Zhang's network business department, did he recognize the wrong person?
"The person is still me, but I'm not the manager now!" Liu Xiao put the box on the table and took out his business card with his free hand: "This is my new business card." ”
MM took a look and stuck out his tongue, this Liu Xiao changed jobs too quickly, and he became the technical director of NLB in the blink of an eye, so he smiled: "Then I have to call you Director Liu now! I don't know what happened to Director Liu?"
"Just call me Liu Xiao!" Liu Xiao sweated, his current director was far worse than the previous manager, he picked up the box again, and asked, "Are you Director Lan here?" ”
"Yes, I just saw him go in!"
"Okay, then I'll go in!" Liu Xiao raised his leg and walked inside.
MM caught up and said, "I'll take you to the reception room, now the company's senior management seems to be in a meeting, I'll go and inform you, Director Lan will come over after the meeting." ”
"Thank you, thank you!" Liu Xiao followed behind MM and said, "If only our company's front desk reception had half of your ability, last time someone came to me three times, she didn't know to register the other party's name and contact information." ”
MM listened to the compliment and smiled even sweeter.
Within half an hour, Lan Shenghua came in, and said as soon as he entered the door: "You are here, I was thinking about calling you." I said, "Why did you get to NLB?" I made a special inquiry, and it's a small company. ”
Liu Xiao knew that Lan Shenghua was going to ask this, and he had already thought of an excuse, "It's good for a small company to be a small company, I just want to start from the very basics, the starting point in Zhang's was too high in the past, and I was a little overwhelmed." ”
"Then you come to the soft alliance, we can also let you start from the basics!" Lan Shenghua was not satisfied with Liu Xiao's statement.
"Don't mention this!" Liu Xiao smiled, "I came to you this time, and I want to ask you for help." ”
Lan Shenghua still couldn't figure it out, "You, you, you let me tell you what is good, everyone else runs to a high place, you are good, you ran to a small and broken company, what do you think." After staying for a while, seeing that Liu Xiao had no intention of loosening, Lan Shenghua had no choice but to say: "Say it, what's the matter!"
Liu Xiao hurriedly pushed the samples forward and said with a smile: "I took a fancy to a few products at the soft fair yesterday and wanted you to test them." ”
Lan Shenghua caught the reason again, "Look at it, you don't even have a product of your own, can such a company stay?" casually flipped through those samples, Lan Shenghua "huh" for a moment, and said, "Where did you get this sample?"
Liu Xiao looked at it, didn't this be what he got from the two meticulous foreigners, and said, "It's in the exhibition hall, in the most corner." ”
"It's strange, I've been around the exhibition hall for three days, why haven't I seen it!" Lan Shenghua frowned, "What's the matter?" are you going to act as an agent for this product?"
"That's what it means, isn't this a test!" Liu Xiao was a little strange and asked, "What? Have you ever touched this product?"
Lan Shenghua nodded, "Some time ago, we received a commission to test this product. ”
"The result?" Liu Xiao hurriedly asked.
"There are hundreds of security products that we have tested in SoftAlliance, and the security of this thing can be squeezed into the top three. Lan Shenghua frowned, "Our soft alliance recently launched a similar product, but unfortunately, because of the collision with this guy, we have not been able to open the market abroad, and now we are preparing to redevelop our own products." ”
Liu Xiao didn't expect this to be the case, if he was to act as an agent for this product now, wouldn't it be to suppress the soft alliance, and he didn't know what to say for a while, Liu Xiao said: "Who developed this product?"
LAN SHENGHUA POINTED TO THE NAME ON THE SAMPLE BOX, "RE&KING, THIS COMPANY IS A CO-CREATION OF TWO HACKER ORGANIZATIONS, YOU MUST HAVE HEARD OF IT!"
Liu Xiao nodded, Germany's RE and the UK's KING, these are the world's most famous hacker organizations, the company's name Liu Xiao has already seen it, but he didn't expect it to be like this.
"This company is a bit like our soft alliance, they are also a collection of domestic hacker masters. In addition to being able to defend against various existing hacker attacks, it also has an original data filtering module that can act as a gateway firewall in the LAN and provide security for large servers. Lan Shenghua sighed, "This is their first product, so it can be said that it is the collective effort of two hacker teams, and in the future, if we want to expand the international market, they are the biggest rivals." ”
Liu Xiao didn't dare to ask more, put away the sample, and said, "Then I will trouble you to test the remaining two products." ”
"That's no problem!" Lan Shenghua put things away, "It's yourself, think about it, don't mess around in a small company anymore." ”
"It's okay, it's time to rest. Liu Xiao stretched his waist, "When I have rested, I will work hard." ”
"Ahem......" Lan Shenghua sighed, "I really can't help you!"
As he was talking, Liu Xiao's mobile phone rang, and when he took it out, it was Niu Pengen, Liu Xiaole was happy, it wouldn't be that Boss Niu was afraid that he would let the soft alliance run away, so he quickly took it.
"Hey, Liu Xiao, where are you now?" Boss Niu's tone was indeed a little anxious, "Come back quickly, there is something important." ”
"Okay, I've just finished my errand, and I'm about to go back!" Liu Xiao hung up the phone and said to Lan Shenghua: "Brother Lan, then I'll go back first, the company has some problems, and you won't have to worry about the test." ”
Lan Shenghua sent Liu Xiao out of the company, and when he was about to come, he was still persuading Liu Xiao to come to the soft alliance quickly.
Back at the company, Niu Pengen was already waiting there, and when he saw Liu Xiao, he grabbed him, "You're back." ”
"What's so urgent?" Liu Xiao asked.
"Boss Xiong introduced a job to our company, and I don't know if we can do this project, so I'm waiting for you to come back and make a decision." Niu Pengen pulled Liu Xiao, "Let's go, go to my office and talk in detail." ”
"What's going on?" Liu Xiao asked after sitting down.
"There is a department in the city government that wants to carry out LAN transformation, they have already planned, new computers and equipment have been bought, and Boss Xiong asked us to be responsible for the wiring installation and some security settings of the computer. Niu Pengen looked at Liu Xiao, "Do you think we can take this job?"
"Take it, it's not technical anyway!" Liu Xiao was a little sweaty, this kind of live cow Peng En actually had to find himself back to discuss.
"Well, then take it, the work introduced by Boss Xiong can't be sloppy, if it is done well this time, then there will be more such work in the future. ”
Liu Xiao sighed secretly in his heart, even if he took 10,000 jobs like this, it was useless, the technical content was too low, if Niu Pengen wanted the company to rely on this to maintain it in the future, then the company was finished, and there was no future for development.
Niu Pengen's side had already happily replied to Boss Xiong.
The Haicheng city government will carry out a major network transformation, and the hardware of various departments will be upgraded, and Liu Xiao estimates that this is also to prepare for the cyber anti-terrorism exercise. All the transformation plans are designed by the security experts of the city government, and all the servers responsible for communication are also set up and maintained by experts, including the equipment required for the transformation, which are also designated by experts, but there is a lack of a unit to do the simple work of wiring and installation, and Boss Xiong thought of Niu Pengen. Boss Xiong said that if the work is done well this time, then the work of dozens of other departments will be done by Niu Pengen's company.
The next day, Liu Xiao and several other technicians of the company came to the department mentioned by Boss Xiong with tools, and several large trucks had already transported all kinds of equipment and parts needed and stacked them neatly in a pile.
Liu Xiao began to divide the labor at the moment, the ranging first acted, and the rest of the people began to dismantle the packaging box of the equipment, ready to install, and after the equidistance was measured, they also scored people to do the wire wiring. Liu Xiao unpacked the box again and again, thinking in his heart, he is really doing more and more regression, and now the technical content of this life is better than installing the system for people, but after installing the computer for a while, he really has to install the system, which makes Liu Xiao smile bitterly.
A group of people were busy all day, and finally made some achievements, all the equipment was installed in place, and all were connected, Liu Xiao began to make simple security settings for each computer, and saw that there were no more left, so he asked the company's people to call it a day.
As soon as the company's people left, a few more people came in, and it seemed that they were probably those experts, who had to do the final debugging and configuration of the communication server and some professional equipment.
LIU XIAO LOOKED UP AND UNEXPECTEDLY SAW A PERSON, WHO WAS THE REPRESENTATIVE OF RE&KING HE SAW AT THE SOFTWARE MEETING, ALTHOUGH FOREIGNERS SEEM TO BE THE SAME, BUT THIS GUY'S METICULOUS, OLD-FASHIONED AND SERIOUS APPEARANCE IS REMEMBERED BY LIU XIAO.
"WHY ARE THE PEOPLE FROM RE&KING HERE?" LIU XIAO WAS A LITTLE PUZZLED, GOT UP AND WALKED OVER TO THE PEOPLE.
Several people were holding a network plan map in their hands, Liu Xiao glanced at it, this is similar to the plan map provided by Boss Xiong, there are installation location diagrams of various equipment on it, and after looking at it for a while, everyone found the location of the equipment they are responsible for, and they scattered to get busy.
The foreigner walked to a reserved port, took out a box and dismantled it. Liu Xiao saw that it was RE&KING's product. "No, is Haicheng going to use this product as the gateway firewall for the LAN of various departments?", Liu Xiao was stunned, although he knew from Lan Shenghua that RE&KING's product had super security protection capabilities, but he didn't expect that the Haicheng government would use this product in the exercise, after all, government departments rarely used overseas products in the past.
I remember that in the exhibition hall of the software club, this foreigner once said that some people in China ordered hundreds of sets of their products in one go, and now it seems that the person who ordered the goods should be Haicheng Government, and ordinary people cannot need so many products at once. And the person who commissioned SoftAlliance to test this product should also be Haicheng Government.
Liu Xiao stepped forward and greeted, "Hello, Mr. Miller!"
The foreigner looked back, and it seemed that he couldn't remember where he had seen Liu Xiao for a while.
"We met at the software meeting the day before yesterday, and I am the technical director of NLB!" Liu Xiao reminded.
The foreigner finally remembered, "Hello, it's a pleasure to see you here!"
"What a coincidence!" Liu Xiao pointed to all the computers, "I'll be responsible for installing the computers here, Mr. Miller?"
"I'm here to install our products for customers!" the foreigner pointed to the box in his hand, "This must be set up by our company's technicians to play the greatest role." ”
Liu Xiao let out an "oh", indicating that he understood, and said, "You need to install a lot of them, right?"
The foreigner smiled, "Well, hundreds of them need to be installed." After the foreigner finished speaking, he remembered the matter, "I don't know if your company has decided, can we act as an agent for our products?" Originally, we still had some doubts about your technical level, but now it seems that there is no problem at all. You can all participate in the municipal government's projects, so there should be no problem in taking care of our products. And as you can see, our products are very marketable in your place, and our cooperation will be a win-win situation. ”
Liu Xiao smiled, noncommittal, the foreigner was confused, scratched his head, and continued to be busy with himself. IN FACT, LIU XIAO REMEMBERED THE WORDS OF STEPPING ON THE SNOW WITHOUT A TRACE, HE SAID THAT THERE HAS BEEN A HACKER ORGANIZATION THAT HAS SUCCEEDED, IS IT REFERRING TO RE&KING? HAICHENG USES RE&KING'S EQUIPMENT, IF THERE IS A PROBLEM WITH THIS PRODUCT DURING THE EXERCISE, IT IS REALLY VERY TRICKY. However, this also does not make sense, RE&KING has spent so much effort on its own products, in order to expand its business in the field of security, if they just want to expand the popularity of the organization and do their own products, then the failure of the exercise, that is, it is equivalent to RE&KING smashing its own brand, and no one will dare to buy RE&KING's products in the future.
Liu Xiao thought about it for a long time, but he didn't straighten out the relationship, and when he looked back, the foreigner took out his notebook, which had been connected to the equipment and was doing configuration and debugging.
Liu Xiao looked at it for a while, and felt that his heart was in a mess, so he quickly withdrew, went out and went straight to the soft alliance, he had to ask Lan Shenghua for a test report of RE&KING's product, if he didn't figure things out, Liu Xiao's heart would always be messy.