At IBM, she led a corporate-wide effort to identify and deliver security solutions, including the SecureWay family of products and services. She is also a past chairman of the National Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education, an organization of industry, government and academia focusing on the enhancement of information security skills, training and education. Imagine a virtually untapped market that is nearly 4.5 times larger than the United States and starving for new technologies and investments. The country of 1.2 billion people is hungry for the same high-tech innovations that are fueling today's Western economies.
China is a high-tech business's dream.
The massive country contains huge, untapped niches for software development and security applications. But operating in China is not an easy proposition. As a management consultant to Western companies trying to break into the Chinese market, I advise my clients that they will be subject to layers upon layers of government regulations and oversight, which are often difficult to understand and more restrictive than most countries. Over the next five to 10 years, the Chinese State Council wants to expand the country's software industry to make it internationally competitive. And while digital signatures are not yet legally binding in China, the government recently published e-commerce digital certificate rules for the Shanghai administrative division to manage pricing for authentication services.