"We've had a focus on education because we felt if we could demonstrate to the marketplace that we could sit in the wildest of environments, it would demonstrate true security functionality," said DeepNines President Dan Jackson. "At universities you would not believe the spike in traffic and the spike in malicious traffic when school comes back in service."
With their bottom lines and corporate reputations at risk, many security professionals, tired of being able only to react to viruses and worms, are looking for ways to prevent degradation and infection.
Worms and viruses cost organizations billions of dollars and hundreds of man-hours. Spam has grown to represent between 60 percent and 70 percent of all e-mail, according to published reports. And even the companies charged with helping businesses secure their networks now are coming under attack. In April, for example, Cisco (Nasdaq: CSCO) warned customers about a hole in its Wireless LAN Solution Engine.
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