Sramana Mitra: How can you understand all that? That requires a tremendous amount of intelligence in your system. Dave Maquera: There are two ways. What the system allows is upload of corpus. If you have a specific set of language or a corpus that you know is acceptable, it can be loaded into the system.
Sramana Mitra: What are the core trends in mobile security from your perspective? Dave Maquera: We asses that there are three key things that are related. The first piece is that we see that BOYD is what mobility is all about. We see fewer companies getting into the business of issuing devices, for a lot
Sramana Mitra: What other vertical solution is interesting? Dave Maquera: One of the things we have done, particularly in healthcare, with our e-mail security product is focus on all of the key workflows and requirements associated with the highly regulated environment that health providers find themselves in. What that caused us to do over the
Sramana Mitra: Let’s talk a bit about those vertical solutions. You brought up one to one iPad solutions for school districts. Double click down into that and talk a bit more on a technical level. What are the challenges, and what are you trying to do specifically?
Sramana Mitra: But your customer base is the enterprise. Is that correct? Dave Maquera: Enterprise, schools, state and local government, and also within the enterprise there are specific verticals. Together these constitute the majority of our business. Those verticals are financial services, healthcare, and telecommunications providers.
Dave Maquera is the chief executive officer at EdgeWave, a leading company in cloud-based security solutions. Dave studied at Harvard Business School and has more than 15 years of experience in the technology business. In this interview he talks about Edgewave’s unique approach to security solutions and addresses open problems in the industry. Sramana Mitra: