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.

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.

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.

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.

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 that is riding on the server.

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.