Sounds too good to be true—is probably what some people are thinking. But that’s exactly what encryption vendor Ingrian Networks is offering to customers. With the rapid approach of the next PCI deadline on September 30, 2007, there has been a lot of discussion around compliance: what it really means to be compliant, what actions need to be taken, and how can they be taken in time to meet these deadlines.

I wanted to find out whether it’s realistic to get PCI compliant within 60 days. I had the opportunity to conduct an email interview with Cary Sholer, an independent information security consultant that specializes in large scale and complex security deployments.
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Seagate is close to releasing a “secure” hard drive for laptops. Obviously, this product is targeted at customers where laptops with sensitive data have been lost and public embarrassment quickly ensued (or at least a quick public dismissal of any risk). It’s an interesting product to be sure.
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At Wall Street he had a successful investment career. As a angel investor he gained experience in evaluating and investing in startups, one of them was Amazon.com. But Bob Gelfond has always been passionate about science and technology. He was also fascinated by the possibilities of quantum computing, so he started to research in which companies he could invest. He soon found out that there wasn’t really any startup around that he could invest in. But yet his keen business sense told him that this is a tremendous opportunity, so he gave it a shot and decided to start his own company – MaqiQ Technologies. A company focused on quantum information systems. He started with building an expert team around quantum computing, that was back in 1999.

I had a chance to talk to Bob and get his take on what we can expect in the future.

At what point did you realize that there might be enough demand or a big enough market to start a company?
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