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Life is pretty good for Washington-area companies in the business of protecting computer networks.
Corporate America is expected to spend nearly $20 billion in information security products by 2006, according to Forrester Research, a Cambridge, Mass.-based company that analyzes the technology market.
One of the businesses working to get some of that money is Plan B Technologies of Bowie, whose services include information technology security, corporate security assessments, disaster recovery planning and businesscontinuity strategies.
It was launched when a group of executives, including Donnie Downs, Plan B's president and CEO, left FutureLink, a Lake Forest, Calif.-based security company that filed for Chapter 11 in August 2001, and looked for their "Plan B."
Downs decided that not only did he and his colleagues need a Plan B for their careers but that many companies also need a Plan B for their computer networks as they face cyberthreats both from the Internet and from the inside.
Privately held Plan B Technologies (www.planbtech.net), which has 30 employees, is expected to hit $10 million in revenue this year.
Downs, in...