CRN: Are you still involved in product development.
EC: Yes, that' s the technical geek inside me.
CRN: What about competitors such as Kaspersky are they competing directly with you?
EC: We are always competitive with Kaspersky in the consumer space. They are very aggressive in the consumer and retail market also with pricing and rebates. But our new initiatives, such as server and data centre security, we don't see competition for them from traditional anti-virus providers.CRN: What threats will dominate this year?
EC: The targeted attack. Nasdaq's trading desk was recently infected. They belive it was somebody targeting them to get insider information. Stuxnet was a targeted attack against [Iran's nuclear] infrastructure. There's a need to understand a customer's environment, to match our knowledge [to their needs] and understand the patch levels, the network behaviour. You need to know the network connection and you need to know [what is] inside the content.
CRN: You have an Android security product what's the mobile smartphone threat?
EC: Actually, it's not a really popular threat but we usually see an indication that if the hacker has a business model that means they're starting to write [that attack]. We're starting to see the business model.
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