"So trusted computing lends itself to being turned on in an organized manner. It's not a great panic to turn on. It's really expensive to turn on if you have to in a week, and so the best plan would be to turn it on across the board. So that’s what we advocate. And we pushed that position very strongly. I think we're starting to see motion in the right direction but first step will be both deployments in most likely army and Air Force that will provide the foundation with which they'll justify broader spends.
So it will take a broader period of time, it's not going to happen in a weekend. It should, but it's not going to. And we should continue to advocate for that. If congress is going to move on cyber security legislation which they're not, and doesn't appear to anytime in the future, then it’s left up to private industry and individual government departments to actually secure the network. And this is one of the key actions we can take to move away from a global posture of watching the threats go across the network which is what everybody's investing in today, is just watching stuff and actually move toward dose of prevention and Trusted computing goes a long ways toward the dose of prevention. So it’s a challenge. It’s a little tiny snapshot into our pressure into the US government and other governments in the world. We're pushing that activity forward. Should we invest in that? I think it’s the right thing to do. I think the government has the opportunity to demonstrate clear adoption of this and if they actually stepped off the platform and jumped in the pool, I think it's probably one of the fastest ways we get to broader adoption across all of enterprise of this technology as opposed to trying to convince 10 Fortune 50 companies to do it and then be willing to stand up and tell the world that it worked out for them because that's so far taking longer than we expected."
q2, 2012 transcript
