"Visibility, security and acceleration are the stages one of our new clients goes through," said Hansmann. "The first stage, enhanced by our acquisition of Packeteer, helps companies analyse network usage."

"We are moving more and more of security intelligence into the cloud," he said. "This model helps us find new viruses before any other virus company."

"A collaborative defence consists of WAN [wide area network], WebPulse, also consists of new hardware such as ProxySG 9000 and ProxyAV 1400/2400," said Hansmann "These new and enhanced filters along with threat intelligence are updated in the cloud in real time."

"The provider can offer new technologies, updates and fixes without the user needing to do anything," said Hansmann, adding that performance is improved by a factor of five at the gateway.

"In addition, reporting performance has been improved by 12 times, which helps to solve people problems and teach safer behaviour," he said. "With 62 million users on the cloud service with on-demand intelligence and ratings, as well as cloud-connected architecture that offers the best TCO [total cost of ownership] on the market, this helps put the company ahead of other cloud service providers who are relative newcomers into the field."