When thieves steal information from corporations, they rob enterprises of valuable assets: business intelligence, brand equity and self-determination over IT investments. These assets have a quantifiable monetary value and are vital for sustaining a competitive advantage.

High-profile information security breaches, the proliferation of mobile computers and the current regulatory environment have elevated the need to install electronic data protection measures. Encryption is a fundamental enabling technology for protecting electronic information, and there is significant demand for security products that protect enterprise data without impeding the flow of information between employees, customers and partners.

We have not developed good policies for allowing corporations to extract the information that they need without invading the privacy of the individual.

The current economic expansion of the last three to four years has been hugely geared to consumer spending, while corporations have been sitting on their wallets. We think that trend is going to start reversing in 2006.

While there may have been other bits of information or intelligence that would say, 'Whoa, wait a minute, we need to stop the train,' it never really stopped,

Whatever intelligence it was, it was faulty. Probably it was done on the basis of some information that there were foreign militants in the area. But this information could have been shared with our armed forces, and they could have taken action without killing so many innocent civilians.