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John W. Thompson

"One of the things that has been truly incredible to observe though, is the amount of venture investment that has gone into early stage security technology."

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"One of the things that has been truly incredible to observe though, is the amount of venture investment that has gone into early stage security technology."

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"But what Web services suggest is that the connection is always there between an application that is resident somewhere in the cloud, and a user who is somewhere on the other end of a connection."
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"If you accept that security is a process, and if you can eliminate the human interaction or intervention in that process by automating more, that is a good thing."
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"I don't think there is any franchise more powerful than ours around securing the consumer experience and we will not concede that to anyone including Microsoft."
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"Right now we have a closure rate between discovery and exploitation of four to six months. We need to be more in the realm of seven to 10 days. That is an enormous challenge."
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"First, our focus on security is on the infrastructure itself. So it is all about how you protect the network, the device, and the application that is riding on the server."
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"Over the near term there is clearly the opportunity to work with Microsoft to do to a better job of creating a more secure Windows experience for users around the world."
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"The U.S. and Israel probably lead the way in terms of venture investment in technologies companies focused on the security paradigm. That is quite encouraging."
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"Well Web services are nothing more than a way for users to interact with applications."
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"While there have been terrific advances in the state of technology around heuristics, behavior blocking, and things like that, technology is only a part of the approach to solving the problem with the more important aspect involving putting the right process in place."
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"We think the managed security services opportunity is enormous and so we have been an active participant and probably the largest firm in this space outside of an IBM or EDS, which does large outsourcing contracts."
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