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John W. Thompson
American
Businessman
Born:
Apr 24
,
1949
Around
Good
More
Technology
Think
You
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I'm an intensely competitive guy who is driven by the idea that accepting mediocrity or accepting defeat is not the way you succeed in life.
John W. Thompson
Life
You
Defeat
Mediocrity
Way
Guy
Driven
Idea
Accepting
Intensely
Succeed
Who
Competitive
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.
John W. Thompson
You
Focus
First
Our
Security
About
Network
Device
Protect
How
Itself
Infrastructure
Riding
Server
Application
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 in place, and the technologies that help them enforce policy compliance.
John W. Thompson
Shifting
Compliance
Security
Intrusion
Seeing
Attention
Like
Policies
Policy
Place
Sensors
Them
Customers
Enforce
Products
Help
Now
Technologies
Need
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 moving towards a Web service paradigm.
John W. Thompson
Service
Integrity
Important
Strategy
Validity
Ensuring
Paradigm
Web
Data
Towards
Very
Any
Moving
Connection
Company
Element
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.
John W. Thompson
Technology
Problem
Behavior
Important
State
Approach
Solving
More
Only
Part
Advances
Putting
Like
Involving
Terrific
Around
Blocking
Been
The Problem With
Process
Place
While
Aspect
Right
Things
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 and talented people, and there is a certain pride that comes along with that for them and for us.
John W. Thompson
Good
Relationship
People
Pride
Enormous
Resources
Kid
Ourselves
Development
Talented
Along
Talented People
Well
Microsoft
Them
Us
Certain
Working
Company
Level
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 out there today.
John W. Thompson
Today
Complexity
Out
Paradigm
Solutions
Threats
More
Variety
Reactive
Deal
Shift
Technologies
Need
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.
John W. Thompson
Way
Focused
Paradigm
Security
Lead
Investment
Terms
Venture
Israel
Encouraging
Quite
Companies
Technologies
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.
John W. Thompson
Challenge
Exploitation
Enormous
Seven
Months
Rate
More
Between
Days
Discovery
Six
Closure
Realm
Now
Right
Four
Need
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.
John W. Thompson
Good
You
Intervention
Security
More
Good Thing
Accept
Human
Interaction
Process
Thing
Eliminate
First, I do not think there is any silver bullet to solving the technology side of the security equation.
John W. Thompson
Technology
First
Think
Side
Security
Solving
Silver
Equation
Bullet
Any
What the Snowden scenario proved is that the weakest link is not the technology, the weakest link is the individual; we shouldn't kid ourselves.
John W. Thompson
Technology
Kid
Ourselves
Weakest
Weakest Link
Scenario
Individual
Proved
Link
Snowden
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