Network Engines is committed to delivering its NS Series Security Appliances through channel partners. The signing of BUI is a clear indication of our continued drive in expanding our market reach and accelerating the delivery of our products to customers across South Africa. BUI have a highly qualified team of consultants with core Microsoft competencies in Security and Advanced Infrastructure, and an acute understanding of the wide range of technologies around Microsoft infrastructures.

There is already a sizeable market for security appliances in the Middle East and there is every indication that demand is set to increase which is why we have partnered with Fusion to take advantage of the growing opportunities. Fusion has an impressive portfolio and offers an excellent suite of IT security products to their channel partners. Fusion specialists have broad expertise in IT security technology, so this agreement is hugely beneficial to Network Engines' expansion plans in the region. Our partnership with a well-established leader in the field demonstrates the surging demand for application security appliances for the Microsoft environment.

Security threats are on the rise and will continue to grow as workers become ever more mobile and the number of access points to each company's critical assets increases. The deployment of an NS Series appliance at Objective Productions demonstrates the increasingly integral part our technology will play in securing and protecting core Microsoft applications in today's enterprises.

Their strong ties to Kuwait surely merit the additional security of having them check in with Pre-Trial Services to ensure they stay in Arizona, pending trial.

I think you're going to see a heavy concentration in the months ahead on national security items and making sure that terrorism doesn't revisit American shores.

The major impact of Sept. 11 on privatization is the disappearance of the Social Security surplus, ... Before the attacks, it was questionable whether we had enough money available to pay for the transition to privatization. This makes the issue even more difficult.