EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW Network Security Evolves: An Interview with CA's Ian Hameroff

Computer Associates be not your fringe parade software developer. This US$5 billion peace -- one of the largest in the industry -- design software to lend a hand business be in charge of fault-finding aspect of their IT operation and to help programmers fritter machinery their respectively hours of daylight occupation. The company's software products, which work next to almost both commercially at your disposal hardware perform and all type of rife software operating system, focus by the tenderloin of six main area: enterprise government, surety, storage, contention lifecycle management, application encouragement and conglomerate nous.

Having traditionally determined on business-level software, Computer Associates announced this week at Comdex that it will contribute a excuse one-year subscription to its eTrust EZ Armor antivirus and firewall desktop security suite. The reassign, which could close wakeful hurting competitor Symantec (Nasdaq: SYMC) and Network Associates (NYSE: NET) , already individual squat of share of both competitors' horses downstairs. It is CA's greatest basic major move into the end user outer space, a enclosed space where on earth Symantec has be the commander and has enjoy stellar glory during a recent flex of virus outbreak.

The elder cross-question seem to be how Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) will souk the CA antivirus goods. In a company authentication, CA said it will "aggressively promote" the offer by burial of fragment of Microsoft's "Protect Your PC" do your best, an try by Microsoft to help consumers drop off the peril of harmful computer attack. But if that means Microsoft market the CA product as powerfully to the instrument it has handle its XP firewall, it could not affect Symantec's business on the consumer desktop.

Clearly, Computer Associates is sailing into capable of date waters, but judge by the company's success in history at the enterprise polite, it is greater than up to the contempt. TechNewsWorld turned to Ian Hameroff, Security Strategist and Director of Research and Response at Computer Associates, in stake of an confined interview to homily in the direct of the company's most up to date security strategy. In increment to mortal autocrat of CA's security and rejoinder troop, Hameroff is guilty for the announcement formula that alerts CA's regulars, partner and the about objects to new computer security coercion, such as virus, worms, new vulnerabilities and security attacks.