Securing 99% of the vulnerabilities isn't good enough. An organization will have 100 vulnerabilities left on 20,000 systems and with 10-20 vulnerabilities to take care of, you have thousands of systems waiting to be exploited. This observation may seem self serving given that CyberGatekeeper was designed to address this issue, but we developed it because we felt it was a key problem.

What is your take on the firewall market in 2002 and what are your expectations for 2003?


I'm bullish on endpoint security this year. We've seen some effects of the heightened awareness of security in the government space and I think the corporate market will continue to see value in this area as well.