单选题 Data security used to be all about spending big bucks on firewalls to defend data at the network perimeter and on antivirus software to protect individual computers. Internet-based computing, or cloud computing, has changed all that, at the same time expanding exponentially the chances for data thieves and hackers.
The cloud creates other opportunities too. a handful of security vendors now deliver security as a service--a one-two punch of hardware and software that monitors and manages an enterprise's data security and bills customers only for the computing power they use. "For years, security was about big companies pushing technology to their customers," says Qualys CEO and founder Philippe Courtot. "Now it's about the customers pulling precisely what they need and providing them with those resources on demand. "
Qualys, a privately held company in Redwood Shores, Calif. , was among the first to embrace the service-oriented model, in 1999. Today four different modules of QualysGuard, its flagship offering, are used by more than 3500 organizations in 85 countries. The company performs more than 200 million security audits per year.
Courtot knows something about opportunity. The French entrepreneur arrived in Silicon Valley in 1987 and has built a number of companies into big-time players, including Signio, an electronic-payment start-up that was eventually sold to VeriSign in a combined deal for more than $1 billion. As CEO, he rebuilt Verity and transformed cc:Mail, a once unknown firm of 12 people, into a dominant e-mail platform before Lotus acquired it in 1991. "Throughout my career, I've been able to recognize that for a technology to succeed, it must have a purpose," he says. "Technology itself has no value. It's what you do with it that counts. "
Under the old paradigm, according to Courtot, enterprises overspent for stand-alone security devices that became unruly and difficult to operate over the long term He says Qualys attacks the flaws in this strategy by streamlining security and tackling most of the service delivery through the cloud. "We control the infrastructure, software updates, quality assurance and just about everything in between," he says. The firm unveiled QualysGuard in 2000. After an infusion of $ 25 million from the venture firm Trident Capital and another $ 25 million from Gourtot, Qualys tweaked the service to focus mostly on vulnerability management.
Much of the company's current revenue-sales, topped $ 50 million last year--is being driving by a set of standards established by the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (PCISSC). "The PCI standard has been a major driver of business for all of them, especially Qualys," says Avivah Litan, a vice president and analyst at market-research firm Gartner. "When everyone has to comply, there's a lot of work to go around. /

单选题 The traditional way to ensure data security is by ______.

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】[解题思路] 题目中traditional way是关键词，对应第一段第一句中used to be。第一段中提到人们过去花一大笔钱在网络的边界安装防火墙和杀毒软件来保护网络上的资料和个人电脑，故[B]正确。云计算是一项新技术，而非保护资料的传统做法，故[A]不正确。第一段最后一句中提到，减少黑客入侵的机会是采取云计算产生的结果，而不是保护资料的做法，故[C]不符合题意。[D]在第二段中提及，属于新技术，也不是传统做法，故排除。

单选题 The phrase "one-two punch" (Line 2, Paragraph 2) is closest in meaning to ______.

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】[解题思路] 本题考查的是对复合词意思的推断，punch意为“(用拳的)一击；一拳”。第二段介绍云创造了其他的机会——少数安全软件供应商把安全作为一项服务，所以可推测应该有许多硬件和软件被开发来共同服务于消费者，故[D]正确。[A]是对punch一词字面意思的理解，而根据文意，此处不可能是指软件和硬件之间的斗争。既然作为一项服务，就应克服负面效应，故排除[B]。下文并没有涉及规模大小的问题，故[C]不正确。

单选题 What's Courtot's contribution to cc:Mail?

单选题 According to the text, which one about Qualys is TRUE?

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】[解题思路] 文章倒数第二段第二句中提到Qualys attacks the flaws in this strategy by streamlining security and tackling most of the service delivery through the cloud，[C]是对此句的同义转述，符合题意。第三段开头提到Qualys，a privately held company，故[A]不正确。第三段第一句提到它是第一批支持服务型模式的公司之一，而没有明确指出它是第一个，故[B]不正确。文章倒数第二段最后一句提到Qualys tweaked the service to focus mostly on vulnerability management，故[D]不正确。