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Question: Matthew George Hedberg - RBC Capital Markets, Research Division - Analyst
: Congrats on very strong results, obviously. Jay, there's obviously a lot of success you're seeing in the enterprise on upsell and large
deals. But I had a question on the federal or, I guess, public sector market. Obviously, the Colonial Pipeline attack highlighted the
risk here that some utilities are at. Just -- can you talk to us about how you think about Zero Trust architecture could benefit the
public sector? And might that be an accelerant as we look forward for the next year or 2?
Jay Chaudhry;Co-Founder, President, CEO & Chairman of the Board
I think we have been hearing enterprises talk about Zero Trust more and more for the last 12 to 18 months, especially after some of
the SolarWind type of attacks. This (inaudible) I've seen. But no, it's good to see that federal government is waking up and saying
they need to do something. It's good to see a very clear directive coming from Biden administration, which highlight a need for Zero
Trust. And by the way, I must say that many vendors are trying to hijack on Zero Trust. But Zero Trust as written by the EU based on
the NIST research paper, it is not done by firewall. It is connecting entities to entities without a pass-through connection, and we
believe we'll have a big advantage of it. We started investing in federal space about 3 years ago, had to go through a lengthy process
of certifications of FedRAMP and the like. We are very well certified. We started investing in sales organization about 2 years ago,
have a strong team, a strong and growing pipeline. So federal business seems great. And the second part of your question is actually
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public sector, which is the non-federal part, which is state, local and education stuff. We are doing in that part very well as well.
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