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GSN Interviews Louis R. Hughes<br />
Continued from page 19<br />
came through personal use, but I<br />
am saying, get rid of the risk of<br />
personal use. Why not?<br />
GSN: Is WorkPlay Technology<br />
easy to implement?<br />
LH: Yes. It’s a core technology<br />
you can adapt to any ARM<br />
device, which in the mobile<br />
world are very common. But I<br />
think the more telling answer is,<br />
our core technology is small, just<br />
several thousand lines of code.<br />
That’s not much when you look<br />
at the size of other containerization<br />
methods. This is important<br />
because the code is pretty easy<br />
to evaluate, modify and support.<br />
The underlying technology was<br />
validated for us by a NIST-certifying<br />
lab, Cygnacom. So it is not a<br />
large or long exercise to fit it into<br />
the majority of existing hardware<br />
platforms.<br />
GSN: What about cost?<br />
LH: We expect to make it<br />
quite inexpensive to the user customer<br />
- - imagine dividing your<br />
tablet into a Work tablet and a<br />
Play tablet, for just a few extra<br />
dollars.<br />
GSN: How do you plan to<br />
get it implemented?<br />
LH: We work with chip<br />
makers, OEMs and large customers<br />
who want it, like the government,<br />
or should want it. We can<br />
integrate it into existing devices<br />
in the field or new production<br />
devices. It’s just a simple way of<br />
eliminating a dilemma between<br />
using a device for business and<br />
personal use, or any other reason<br />
for separating data, like between<br />
classified and unclassified information.<br />
And when it is implemented<br />
there’s no downside to<br />
the user, there are just two real<br />
devices in one. Our view is, why<br />
not if you can?<br />
GSN: Has the marketplace<br />
had a chance to evaluate and respond?<br />
LH: We’ve both proven and<br />
demonstrated WorkPlay Technology’s<br />
validity, effectiveness<br />
and ease of use to our potential<br />
partner-customers. We have<br />
agencies, chip makers, OEMs and<br />
large cyber technology providers<br />
we are in various degrees of serious<br />
discussion with right now.<br />
Each of these has its own needs<br />
and wants, and our mission is to<br />
make it easy and satisfy them. It<br />
is important to make it as easy<br />
as possible for the end users, especially<br />
government and critical<br />
41<br />
enterprises, to seamlessly be able<br />
to benefit from WorkPlay Technology<br />
to, as I said, eliminate half<br />
the problem.<br />
GSN: Thanks, Lou. If the<br />
old saying is true that “All work<br />
and no play makes Jack a dull<br />
boy,” it looks like you may have<br />
found a solution for a lot of potential<br />
workaholics.<br />
Louis R. Hughes is the former<br />
President of Lockheed Martin and<br />
General Motors International Operations,<br />
a current member of the<br />
Board of Directors of several large<br />
multinational companies including<br />
Alcatel-Lucent and ABB, and<br />
served as State Department Chief<br />
of Staff for Afghanistan Reconstruction.<br />
Now, he also serves as<br />
Chairman of a local R&D firm,<br />
InZero Systems, specializing in<br />
embedded computer security<br />
technology. InZero has developed<br />
“WorkPlay Technology” for mobile<br />
devices and laptop/desktops.<br />
Contact: InZero Systems ,13755<br />
Sunrise Valley Drive, Suite 750,<br />
Herndon, VA 20171, Email:<br />
info@workplaytablet.com, Phone:<br />
703-636-2048, www.workplaytablet.com/.
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