John W. Thompson Quotes & Sayings

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“First, I do not think there is any silver bullet to solving the technology side of the security equation.”

“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.”