How does Symantec go about its business of Internet security?
Mr. Thompson: We approach the opportunity for Internet security in two principal ways, one of which is an area called content security, which is what helps customers ‘ be they consumers or corporations ‘ protect what resides on their desktops or their gateways. Technologies like anti-virus, URL filtering, and e-mail scanning are all about providing content protection for documents or data as it flows around an organization. Another area called operational security is an area more associated with risk management, which is assessing what risk customers have with their networks, how vulnerable they are to attack, and what the potential safeguards are that can be implemented either in policy or in technology that will allow them to shore up their infrastructure. We think it is the focus on risk management that is far more important for enterprises because there is a desire to determine what level of risk is acceptable and balance it against cost and infrastructure performance. So what we t
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