John W. Thompson Quotes

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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.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• Well we have a good working relationship with Microsoft at the development level. But let's not kid ourselves, this is a company with enormous resources…
• 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…
• 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…
• First, I do not think there is any silver bullet to solving the technology side of the security equation.
• We need to shift the paradigm from reactive technologies to more integrative solutions that deal with the variety and complexity of the threats that are…
• 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…
• What we are seeing now is customers shifting their attention from security products like firewalls and intrusion sensors, to the policies that need to be…
• Well Web services are nothing more than a way for users to interact with applications.
• 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…
• 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…
• Second issue is the rapidly accelerating increase in the number of vulnerabilities that get discovered every day. And, equally importantly, is the shortening of time…
• So ensuring the integrity of the data and integrity and validity of the connection is a very important element in any company's strategy that is…
• So you will see us continue to advance the state of the art or take information that we have in our response data bases and…
• There has been no appreciable improvement in our country's ability to produce the kind of talent we need in this space. There have been some…
• I grew up in West Palm Beach, Florida. My dad took me hunting, trapping and fishing when I was a kid.
• The thing we have to be careful of is that the Internet is a global communications medium, and if one country tips the balance in…

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