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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 outside of an IBM or EDS, which does large outsourcing contracts.

The British security industry has the capacity to be a world leader and it should be our shared objective to achieve this.

U.K. companies are in very international and very competitive markets. If you look at PC penetration in the U.K., it is very similar to the United States market.

We need to just study what other countries have done. There are examples of a strong partnership between the defence establishment and the private industry.

Businesses should absolutely set aside funding in their budgets for security consultants. Unless there is an expert on staff, and there usually is not, it needs to be outsourced.

A company can spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on firewalls, intrusion detection systems and encryption and other security technologies, but if an attacker can call one trusted person within the company, and that person complies, and if the attacker gets in, then all that money spent on technology is essentially wasted.

Building secure products actually makes for a safer world; many people in law enforcement may not agree with that.

Companies spend millions of dollars on firewalls, encryption, and secure access devices and it's money wasted because none of these measures address the weakest link in the security chain: the people who use, administer, operate and account for computer systems that contain protected information.

Even in Britain, the trade unions tell me that employment contracts have less protection than in the past.

Corporations understand the value of security because the leakage of their competitive information could be the end of the corporation.