Here to Stay

CF: This past summer, Perimeter 81 reached $1 billion in valuation. What’s the significance to partners? Does this mean Perimeter 81 can do more for them?

GR: I would say it absolutely does, because what it shows is that we’re not going away. The security market is very saturated while it’s exploding in growth. There are thousands of different vendors coming in at different angles saying that they can do certain aspects of security, but the investment certainly allows us, one, to retain and bring in some some great talent. But two, and most importantly, it allows us to continually invest heavily, more so than we ever did already in R&D. So things like our secure web gateway (SWG) now with malware filtering and things like, and cloud access security broker (CASB), of course, that are being added into our portfolio. We’re constantly growing and evolving as the threats around the world continue to expand. So I would say it gives security to our partners, to our customers that, you know, 24/7/365, we’re not going anywhere overnight.