For example, given a writing sample, the program can easily identify any other document written by the same author, so long as both are written in the same language or code. It's like a DNA sample of someone's writing. The program analyzes text of any language with equal acuity, he said. According to Gentile, in addition to unnamed government agencies, buyers thus far include financial houses worried about insider trading, drug companies with valuable intellectual property to protect, banks with accounts to secure, and health care organizations with confidential medical records stored online. The average customer gets one license, but one government agency bought 50.
Security experts say it does.
And, with the rise of the knowledge-based economy, information has become a larger portion of assets. Employee mobility is one of the single biggest threats to an organization's security. Due to telecommuting, people are working on less secure networks. Omni measured a 19 percent increase in telecommuting from 2000 over 1999 alone. It also found a 44 percent increase in corporate spending on network security in 2000 over the year before, with 62 percent of that spent on securing networks from internal threats.