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26 quotes by John W. Thompson

John W. Thompson John W. Thompson Born (1949-04-24) April 24, 1949 (age 65) Fort Dix, New Jersey, US Alma mater Florida A&M University MIT Sloan School of Management Occupation CEO of Virtual Instruments Chairman of Microsoft John Wendell Thompson (born April 24, 1949) is the CEO of privately held Virtual Instruments and the Chairman of Microsoft Corporation. He is a former vice-president at IBM and the former Chief Executive...
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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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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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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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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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I've learned several lessons over the years. First, never take yourself too seriously, or work is boring. Next, people make the difference. You... →

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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... →

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