[For example, as a stock trader,] you're only allowed access to research if you have $100,000 in your account, ... If you start with this mechanism of business processes, entitlement and privileges, and those get implemented by security rules, you're golden because you don't have a separate business and security policy rule set. |
[Targeted attacks] don't generate press, so they don't encourage other companies to prepare for them. |
AES will likely not replace more than 30 percent of DES operations before 2004, |
Back then, it was more a reaction to all these worms and viruses that would hit Windows, and Microsoft would get yelled at. Symantec's stock price would go up every time there was a virus. |
Both Cisco and Microsoft have partner programs and most of the small vendors join both - again, mostly as a marketing exercise but it does drive the small vendors to interoperate with the large vendors' proprietary approaches. |
Clipper was a heavy-handed way of forcing a particular design into things, and the reason Clipper failed is the same reasons that this will fail. Users lose out if cryptography is weakened or ineffective or much harder to use. |
Federal money should be where the marketplace isn't working. |
From the experimenting stage, it moved to vandalism, and we had all these defacement attacks. After that, it became politically motivated and we kind of expected the next phase to be cyber-crime. That's the stage we're in today with these kinds of extortion attacks. |
Gartner believes these factors will converge by the end of 2007. |
I think the concern of these agencies is that by their use of the technology they're ahead of the bad guys. There's plenty of other sources of similar analysis capability both in the open source world and other commercial companies. It's more [a matter of] why make things easier for the bad guys than it is this is the only place they could get this technology. |
I think what's going to happen [initially] is a wave of failed audits, |
If Microsoft's security products are easier to use, we think consumers will be very happy to buy from Microsoft. |
If you're afraid of 'back doors,' you better be testing all your software. |
In GLB, legacy is a big deal, |
In GLB, legacy is a big deal. |