With attacks coming that quickly, the automatic push technology they use becomes extremely important.

"We update all customers worldwide in an average of less than 45 seconds. It is all about the underlying real-time push technology, as well as our managed security business model. We realized from day one that the only way to offer customers genuinely effective network security was to do so using a managed service model. Few businesses can dedicate network security staff to do the job, yet with the ever-growing importance of the Internet, businesses cannot afford not to take the risk of being connected to the worldwide web on a twenty-four hour basis," he said.

Gazeley sees his solution as helping IT managers save time. Why, he asks, should they spend a lot of time on security when there are so many other things they must worry about?

That is reasonable, of course, but human beings are not always reasonable, as a glance at news stories on any given day will amply prove.

Time to wise up