Who: Lynn Mattice, vice president and CSO, Boston Scientific

Career highlights: Mattice has participated in a long list of national and international security efforts. These include the National Intellectual Property Law Institute, the National Industrial Security Program Presidential Task Force, the International Security Management Association and the CSO Executive Council. He also has served in an advisory role to the U.S. State Department's Overseas Security Advisory Council, as well as to various U.S. intelligence agencies.

Mattice's thoughts on:

The generally apathetic attitude toward copyright infringement among consumers

"We need to start educating people on the impact of intellectual-property-rights violations. When they think, 'I'm only downloading that little bit of music just to give it to my friend, I'm not hurting anyone,' they need to think how many people will be put out of their jobs. There has to be a baseline level of education across the board, and part of it comes down to basic respect of other people's property. No matter how you want to look at this type of activity, it's plain and simply theft."

The most exciting emerging security technology

"Content-monitoring tools mean we can live in a managed security environment that covers the ability to copy, print, e-mail. [With outbound content monitors, a company] can filter and monitor, validate that an authorized person has sent the information out, and encrypt the information in transit mode. Then other technologies moving forward can manage the length of time anyone can access the data."

Securing intellectual property overseas

"I'm concerned over the burgeoning number of companies that haven't even thought about information security, particularly when they go to another country and haven't protected themselves with patents or trademarks or copyrights. They will do real-time development overnight with companies in India or China. Both countries have excellent intellectual-property laws, but they do very little enforcement . . . a lot of people don't think about that. They think, 'I've got to get my product developed at as low a cost as possible.' However, they will pay the ultimate price in loss of ownership and economic advantage in the marketplace."