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While there have been terrific advances in the state of technology around heuristics, behavior blocking, and things like that, technology is only a part of the approach to solving the problem with the...

John W. Thompson

While there have been terrific advances in the state of technology around heuristics, behavior blocking, and things like that, technology is only a part of the approach to solving the problem with the...

Tags: technology, problem, behavior, place

One of the things that has been truly incredible to observe though, is the amount of venture investment that has gone into early stage security technology.

John W. Thompson

One of the things that has been truly incredible to observe though, is the amount of venture investment that has gone into early stage security technology.

Tags: technology, security, early, investment

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John Wendell Thompson (born April 24, 1949) is an American technology executive who was the chairman of Microsoft from 2014 until June 2021, and chairman of Illumina from 2021 until 2023. He is a former chief executive of Virtual Instruments, a vice-president at IBM and the former chief executive of Symantec. Thompson later became an independent director on the board of Microsoft, and in February 2014, was named chairman. He led the search for Microsoft's next CEO; as a result, Satya Nadella was selected.

First, I do not think there is any silver bullet to solving the technology side of the security equation.

John W. Thompson

First, I do not think there is any silver bullet to solving the technology side of the security equation.

Tags: technology

Well we have a good working relationship with Microsoft at the development level. But let's not kid ourselves, this is a company with enormous resources and talented people, and there is a certain pri...

John W. Thompson

Well we have a good working relationship with Microsoft at the development level. But let's not kid ourselves, this is a company with enormous resources and talented people, and there is a certain pri...

Tags: relationship