Though we have been at this a long time, I continue to believe we are at the beginning of a very long journey, that 2011 had the warning bell being tolled many times, such as RSA and Symantec, and these have served to wake-up the security industry.

Power: Before we run out of time, tell us about Atigeo. What is your role?

Burgess: I wear two hats at Atigeo, that of the Chief Operating Officer and also the Chief Security Officer, as you can imagine, in addition to day to day operations, I am also responsible for our security, privacy and compliance initiatives. I'm blessed with a CEO who has put security and privacy front and center throughout the company.

Power: What is the nature of the research that has been conducted?

Burgess: Atigeo has been focused on creating a semantic platform to allow understanding of very large data sets -- that platform is called xPatterns. xPatterns is a contextual semantic search platform which learns, operates with all data sets as it is data agnostic (unstructured or structured or both) and has global applicability as it is linguistically agnostic.