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Well Web services are nothing more than a way for users to interact with applications.
John W. Thompson / Executive
Application
Users
Way
Wells
Applications
Interact
Services
Web
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I grew up in West Palm Beach, Florida. My dad took me hunting, trapping and fishing when I was a kid.
John W. Thompson / Executive
Dad
Beach
Fishing
Florida
Hunting
West
Palm
Took
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First, I do not think there is any silver bullet to solving the technology side of the security equation.
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Technology
Bullets
Silver
Thinking
Bullet
Equation
Solving
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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.
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Accepting
Defeat
Driven
Mediocrity
Succeed
Competitive
Intensely
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My friends and family are amazed I've done so well. I was not a model student. No one expected that I'd build a Fortune 500 company at Symantec.
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Amazed
Friends And Family
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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.
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Individual
Snowden
Weakest Link
Link
Proved
Scenario
Weakest
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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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Technology
Gone
Investment
Venture
Observe
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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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Encouraging
Technology
Focused
Investment
Israel
Paradigm
Venture
Technologies
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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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Experience
Including
Microsoft
Powerful
Thinking
Concede
Consumer
Franchise
Ours
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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.
John W. Thompson / Executive
Accepting
Good Things
Interaction
Intervention
Process
Eliminate
Good Thing
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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 / Executive
Technology
Complexity
Needs
Paradigm
Solutions
Today
Variety
Reactive
Shift
Technologies
Threats
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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.
John W. Thompson / Executive
Jobs
Opportunity
Creating
Microsoft
Secure
Term
Users
Work Experience Opportunity
Better Job
Clearly
Near
Windows
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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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Application
Firsts
Focus
Infrastructure
Protect
Riding
Security
Server
Device
Network
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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.
John W. Thompson / Executive
Closure
Discovery
Enormous
Exploitation
Rate
Seven
Realm
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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 / Executive
Company
Data
Integrity
Moving
Paradigm
Strategy
Validity
Connection
Element
Ensuring
Towards
Service
Web
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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.
John W. Thompson / Executive
Application
Clouds
Connections
Ends
Somewhere
Cloud
Connection
Resident
Services
Suggest
User
Web
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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 have that drive automation or an automated response by some of our products.
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Art
Automation
Bases
Data
Information
Products
Response
Advance
Drive
Automated
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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 small initiatives around the country that have been noteworthy.
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Space
Ability
Country
Improvement
Needs
Produce
Talent
Initiatives
Noteworthy
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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.
John W. Thompson / Executive
Opportunity
Space
Active
Contracts
Enormous
Firm
Ibm
Outsourcing
Security
Thinking
Large
Participant
Services
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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.
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Technology
Attention
Compliance
Customers
Intrusion
Needs
Products
Security
Sensors
Shifting
Enforce
Help
Policies
Technologies
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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 between the discovery of the vulnerability and the release of an exploit.
John W. Thompson / Executive
Accelerate
Discovery
Issues
Numbers
Release
Time Day Every Day
Discovered
Equally
Exploit
Importantly
Issue
Rapidly
Shortening
Vulnerabilities
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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 / Executive
Kids
Relationship
Company
Development
Enormous
Microsoft
Pride
Resources
Good Relationship People
Talented
Talented People
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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.
John W. Thompson / Executive
Technology
Approach
Aspect
Behavior
Block
Important
Involving
Problem
Process
Terrific
Advances
Blocking
Putting
Solving
While
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I've learned several lessons over the years. First, never take yourself too seriously, or work is boring. Next, people make the difference. You can have great technology, but if it's not complemented by great people, it won't go anywhere. Finally, customers buy from people they like.
John W. Thompson / Executive
Technology
Customers
Great People
Lessons
Next
Work Great Yourself
Work Technology Great
Anywhere
Buy
Difference
Finally
Learned
Never Take
Seriously
Several
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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 regulating its use or regulating what companies or individuals do on the web, it could have an economic impact that might be unintended, quite frankly, by the regulations themselves.
John W. Thompson / Executive
Be Careful
Careful
Tips
Communications
Frankly
Individuals
Medium
One Country
Quite Frankly
Regulations
Unintended
Web
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