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Interview: IronPort's Scott Weiss: Page 4 of 5

Inasmuch as spammers are finding ways around reputation filtering, companies want to take greater steps to protect their reputations; there's a movement afoot that's going to make reputation filtering more powerful once people take their reputations more seriously.

In 2006 IronPort acquired an e-mail encryption company and partnered with Vontu, a data leak prevention (DLP) company. How significant are the compliance and DLP markets for driving new business?

Not very. I look at both of these as applications that logically reside at the e-mail gateway. I see it as important, but it doesn't typically drive sales. The main driver for us is still antispam and AV efficiency.

You left Microsoft to found IronPort. Now that IronPort has been acquired, do you have your eye on a new venture?

I don't rule out getting back to a smaller company, but I'm running a significant and strategic business for Cisco and I'm going to stay put for the foreseeable future.