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threatening to the average Joe’s and Jane’s in Anytown, U.S.A. It is a backburner item until it disrupts our daily way of life, much like 9/11 did. Compromise and government transparency is a lot for each side to give into. But I can’t see another way to reduce the threat of an all-out industrial base cyber-attack by a malicious government that would change the way we live, much like 9/11 did. The difference I suspect will be evidenced in the way we access the Internet, not too far removed from the change in how we access airport terminals today versus pre-9/11. About The Author Tony Perri, a technology marketing professional of more than 20 years’ experience, Tony is the co-founder of Vallum Software, LLC, an end-point management vendor targeting SMB’s across a wide range of industries. Tony also resides on the advisory board for the GMI-Foundation, a non-profit online software developers’ portal dedicated to building affordable and highly-functional small- footprint applications to the SMB marketplace. Prior to starting Vallum Software, Tony’s most recent corporate role was vice president of global marketing for Allen Systems Group (ASG), an ISV serving the Infrastructure/Ops, Service Support, and ECM markets. Prior to ASG, Tony served as director of marketing for direct response advertising agency Datamark, and has previously directed the technology marketing strategies for Meridium Software, Mercia Software (now Infor) and Logility Software (American Software). Tony holds an ABJ from the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of Georgia, Athens. Tony can be contacted at [email protected]. + % %! ! & , ! . !( %+ ' "! "#+% ' - + % !& , ! % '& % & %) *"% *