−Removed: below are some of the risks that we believe could affect our business and financial statements.
−Removed: An investment in our common stock
−Removed: involves a high degree of risk.
−Removed: You should carefully consider the following information about these risks, together with the other
−Removed: information contained in this Annual Report on Form 10-K, before investing in our common stock.
−Removed: If any of the events anticipated
−Removed: by the risks described below occur, our results of operations and financial condition could be adversely affected which could
−Removed: result in a decline in the market price of our common stock, causing you to lose all or part of your investment.
−Removed: pandemic, epidemic or outbreak of an infectious disease, such as COVID-19, may materially and adversely affect our business and
+Added: below are some of the risks that we believe could affect our business and financial statements, some of which are beyond our control.
+Added: An investment in our common stock involves a high degree of risk.
+Added: You should carefully consider the following information about these
+Added: risks, together with the other information contained in this Annual Report on Form 10-K, before investing in our common stock.
+Added: of the events anticipated by the risks described below occur, our results of operations and financial condition could be adversely affected,
+Added: which could result in a decline in the market price of our common stock, causing you to lose all or part of your investment.
+Added: risks that we do not yet know of, or that we currently think are immaterial, may also affect our business and results of operations.
+Added: Related to Our Financial Position and Need for Capital
+Added: have incurred net losses since our inception and may never be profitable.
+Added: likelihood of success must be considered in light of the problems, expenses, difficulties, complications and delays frequently encountered
+Added: in connection with development of a business enterprise in the technology sector.
+Added: Our net losses for the year ended September 30, 2021
+Added: were $3,104,283, and for the year ended September 30, 2020 were $6,970,072, respectively, and our aggregate accumulated deficit as of
+Added: September 30, 2021 was $71,530,891.
+Added: cannot assure you that that any of our products currently under development will be successfully commercialized, and the extent of our
+Added: future losses and the timing of our profitability, if ever achieved, are highly uncertain.
+Added: If we are unable to achieve profitability,
+Added: we may be unable to continue our operations.
+Added: ability to continue as a going concern may depend upon our ability to raise additional capital and such capital may not be available
+Added: on acceptable terms, or at all.
+Added: may need to raise additional funds in order to support expansion, develop new or enhanced services and products, hire employees, respond
+Added: to competitive pressures, acquire technologies or respond to unanticipated requirements, provided that we currently believe that funds
+Added: from our recent private placement will allow us to support our operations until approximately September of 2023.
+Added: Our management’s
+Added: plans include attempting to improve our profitability and our ability to generate sufficient cash flow from operations to meet our operating
+Added: needs on a timely basis, obtaining additional working capital funds through equity and debt financing arrangements, and restructuring
+Added: on-going operations to eliminate inefficiencies to increase our cash balances.
+Added: However, we cannot assure you that these plans and arrangements
+Added: will be sufficient to fund our ongoing capital expenditures, working capital, and other requirements.
+Added: Our management intends to make
+Added: every effort to identify and develop sources of funds.
+Added: The outcome of these matters cannot be predicted at this time.
+Added: There can be no
+Added: assurance that any additional financings will be available to us on satisfactory terms and conditions, if at all.
+Added: If adequate funds are
+Added: not available on acceptable terms, we may be unable to develop or enhance our services and products, take advantage of future opportunities
+Added: or respond to competitive pressures or unanticipated requirements, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial
+Added: condition and operating results.
+Added: Further, we may seek to raise additional funds through the issuance of equity securities, in which case,
+Added: the percentage ownership of our stockholders will be reduced, and holders may experience additional dilution in net book value per share.
+Added: amount of capital we may need depends on many factors, including the progress, timing and scope of our product development programs;
+Added: the time and cost necessary to obtain any necessary regulatory approvals;
+Added: our ability to enter into and maintain collaborative, licensing
+Added: and other commercial relationships;
+Added: and our ability to secure commitment of time and resources from third parties to the development
+Added: and commercialization of our products.
+Added: capital markets have been unpredictable in the recent past for unprofitable companies such as ours.
+Added: The amount of capital that we may
+Added: be able to raise often depends on variables that are beyond our control.
+Added: As a result, we may not be able to secure financing on terms
+Added: attractive to us, or at all.
+Added: Even if we are able to consummate a financing arrangement, the amount raised may not be sufficient to meet
+Added: our future needs.
+Added: If adequate funds are not available on acceptable terms, or at all, our business, including our results of operations,
+Added: financial condition and our continued viability will be materially adversely affected.
+Added: if we can raise additional funding, we may be required to do so on terms that are dilutive to our stockholders.
+Added: issuances of new equity by us may dilute the ownership percentage of our existing stockholders.
+Added: The extent of such dilution will depend
+Added: on the number of shares issued.
+Added: The shares issued in such a transaction will be equal to the total dollars paid to us as an investment
+Added: divided by the offering price.
+Added: Neither the amount of funds that may be received in such an equity financing, nor the price per share
+Added: of our equity securities issued are known at this time.
+Added: may need to raise additional funds in order to support expansion, develop new or enhanced services and products, hire employees, respond
+Added: to competitive pressures, acquire technologies or respond to unanticipated requirements.
+Added: If such a need should arise, and issuing new
+Added: equity is the vehicle we use to secure additional funds, then such issuances will likely further dilute the ownership percentages of
+Added: our existing stockholders.
+Added: Related to Our Business and Results of Operations
+Added: pandemic, epidemic or outbreak of an infectious disease, such as COVID-19, has materially affected, and may in the future materially
+Added: and adversely affect, our business and operations.
March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic.
−Removed: The COVID-19 pandemic is
−Removed: affecting the United States and global economies and may affect our operations and those of third parties on which we rely.
−Removed: the potential economic impact brought by, and the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic is difficult to assess or predict, the impact
−Removed: of the COVID-19 pandemic on the global financial markets may reduce our ability to access capital, which could negatively impact
−Removed: our short-term and long-term liquidity.
+Added: The COVID-19 pandemic is affecting the United
+Added: States and global economies and may affect our operations and those of third parties on which we rely.
+Added: While the potential economic impact
+Added: brought by, and the duration of, the COVID-19 pandemic is difficult to assess or predict, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the
+Added: global financial markets may reduce our ability to access capital, which could negatively impact our short-term and long-term liquidity.
The ultimate impact of the COVID-19 pandemic is highly uncertain and subject to change.
−Removed: We do not yet know the full extent of potential delays or impacts on our business, financing or the global economy as a whole.
−Removed: However, these effects could have a material impact on our liquidity, capital resources, operations and business and those of
−Removed: the third parties on which we rely.
−Removed: our common stock is quoted on the OTCQB instead of national exchange, our investors may have a difficulty selling their stock
−Removed: or may experience negative volatility on the market price of our common stock.
−Removed: common stock is traded on the OTCQB Venture Market (“OTCQB”) operated by the OTC Markets Group.
−Removed: The OTCQB is often
−Removed: highly illiquid, in part because it does not have a national quotation system by which potential investors can follow the market
−Removed: price of shares except through information received and generated by a limited number of broker-dealers that make markets in particular
−Removed: There is a greater chance of volatility for securities that trade on the OTCQB as compared to a national exchange or quotation
−Removed: This volatility may be caused by a variety of factors, including the lack of readily available price quotations, the absence
−Removed: of consistent administrative supervision of bid and ask quotations, lower trading volume, and market conditions.
−Removed: our common stock may experience high fluctuations in the market price and volume of the trading market for our securities.
−Removed: fluctuations, when they occur, have a negative effect on the market price for our securities.
−Removed: Accordingly, our stockholders may
−Removed: not be able to realize a fair price from their shares when they determine to sell them or may have to hold them for a substantial
−Removed: period of time until the market for our common stock improves.
−Removed: depend significantly upon the continued involvement of our present management.
−Removed: Company’s success depends significantly upon the involvement of our present management, who are in charge of our strategic
−Removed: planning and operations.
−Removed: We may need to attract and retain additional talented individuals in order to carry out our business
−Removed: The competition for individuals with expertise in this industry could be intense and there are no assurances that
−Removed: these individuals will be available to us.
−Removed: with changing regulation of corporate governance and public disclosure will result in additional expenses and pose challenges
−Removed: for our management.
−Removed: laws, regulations and standards relating to corporate governance and public disclosure, including the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform
−Removed: and Consumer Protection Act and the rules and regulations promulgated there under, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and SEC regulations,
−Removed: have created uncertainty for public companies and significantly increased the costs and risks associated with accessing the U.S.
−Removed: public markets.
−Removed: Our management team will need to devote significant time and financial resources to comply with both existing
−Removed: and evolving standards for public companies, which will lead to increased general and administrative expenses and a diversion
−Removed: of management time and attention from revenue generating activities to compliance activities.
+Added: We do not yet know the full extent of potential
+Added: delays or impacts of the pandemic on our business, financing or the global economy as a whole.
+Added: However, these effects could have a material
+Added: impact on our liquidity, capital resources, operations and business and those of third parties on which we rely.
+Added: 2020 and into 2021, the COVID-19 pandemic has interrupted our sales and marketing activities and restricted face-to-face interaction
+Added: between our representatives and our potential partners.
+Added: This slowed the pace of our development and the expansion of our deal pipeline.
+Added: Government action related to the current pandemic, or the emergence of a new viral outbreak, may negatively impact the adjustments we,
+Added: our customers (if any), the customers of our licensees, and our other business partners have made to resume business under the new protocols.
+Added: depend significantly upon the continued involvement of our present management and on our ability to attract and retain talented employees.
+Added: success depends significantly upon the involvement of our present management, who are involved in our strategic planning and operations.
+Added: We may need to attract and retain additional talented individuals in order to carry out our business objectives.
+Added: The competition for
+Added: individuals with expertise in our industry is intense, and there are no assurances that such individuals will be available to us.
+Added: business is based on successfully attracting and retaining talented employees and contractors.
+Added: The market for highly skilled people in
+Added: our industry is extremely competitive.
+Added: If we are less successful in our recruiting efforts, or if we are unable to retain key existing
+Added: employees, our ability to develop and deliver successful products and services may be adversely affected.
+Added: Effective succession planning
+Added: is also important to our long-term success.
+Added: Our failure to ensure effective transfer of knowledge and smooth transitions involving key
+Added: employees could hinder our strategic planning and execution.
+Added: products face significant competition in the applicable markets, and if they are unable to compete successfully our business will suffer.
+Added: proposed products face, and will continue to face, intense competition from larger companies, as well as from academic and research institutions.
+Added: We compete in an industry that is characterized by:
+Added: (i) rapid technological change, (ii) evolving industry standards, (iii) emerging
+Added: competition, and (iv) new product introductions.
+Added: Our competitors have existing products and technologies that will compete with our products
+Added: and technologies and may develop and commercialize additional products and technologies that will compete with our products and technologies.
+Added: Because many competing companies and institutions have greater financial resources than us, they may be able to:
+Added: (i) provide broader
+Added: services and product lines, (ii) make greater investments in research and development, and (iii) carry on larger research and development
+Added: Our competitors also generally have greater development capabilities than we do and have substantially greater experience
+Added: in undertaking testing of products, obtaining regulatory approvals, and manufacturing and marketing their products.
+Added: They also have greater
+Added: name recognition and better access to customers/licensees than we do.
+Added: Our chief competitors include companies such as HashiCorp, Inc.,
+Added: Palo Alto Networks, Inc., Barracuda Networks, Inc., Cisco Systems, Inc., and Cloudhesive LLC.
+Added: we are unable to develop new and enhanced products, or if we are unable to continually improve the performance, features, and reliability
+Added: of our existing products, our competitive position may weaken, and our business and operating results could be adversely affected.
+Added: future success depends on our ability to effectively respond to evolving threats to consumers and potential customers, as well as competitive
+Added: technological developments and industry changes, by developing or introducing new and enhanced products on a timely basis.
+Added: we have incurred significant research and development expenses.
+Added: We expect to continue to incur research and development expenses, but
+Added: at a lower rate, as we strive to remain competitive, and as we focus on organic growth through internal innovation.
+Added: If we are unable
+Added: to anticipate or react to competitive challenges or if existing or new competitors gain market share in any of our markets, our competitive
+Added: position could weaken, and we could experience a decline in our revenues, if any, which could adversely affect our business and operating
+Added: If we do not achieve the benefits anticipated from these investments, or if the achievement of these benefits is delayed, our
+Added: operating results may be adversely affected.
+Added: Additionally, we must continually address the challenges of dynamic and accelerating market
+Added: trends and competitive developments.
+Added: Customers may require features and capabilities that our current products do not have.
+Added: to develop new products and improve our existing products to satisfy customer preferences and effectively compete with other market offerings
+Added: in a timely and cost-effective manner may harm our ability to retain our customers (if any), and the ability of our licensees to retain
+Added: their customers, and to create or increase demand for our products, which may adversely impact our operating results.
+Added: The development
+Added: and introduction of our new products will involve a significant commitment of time and resources and will be subject to a number of risks
+Added: and challenges, including but not limited to:
+Added: development cycles;
+Added: industry and regulatory standards and technological developments by our competitors and customers (if any), and the customers of
+Added: our licensees;
+Added: changing customer preferences;
+Added: platforms, operating systems, and hardware products, such as mobile devices, and related product and service interoperability challenges;
+Added: into new or unproven markets;
+Added: new product and service strategies.
+Added: we are not successful in managing these risks and challenges, or if our new or improved products are not technologically competitive
+Added: in the market, or do not achieve market acceptance, our business and operating results could be adversely affected.
+Added: operating results may vary significantly from period to period and can be unpredictable, which could cause the market price of our common
+Added: stock to decline.
+Added: operating results, in particular, our revenues, gross margins, operating margins, and operating expenses, have historically varied from
+Added: period to period, and we expect such variation to continue as a result of a number of factors, many of which are outside of our control
+Added: and may be difficult to predict, including:
+Added: ability to attract and retain customers (if any), and/or the ability of our licensees to retain customers or sell products;
+Added: budgeting cycles, seasonal buying patterns, and purchasing practices of potential customers;
+Added: timing and success of new product and service introductions by us or our competitors or any other change in the competitive landscape
+Added: of our industry, including consolidation among our competitors, licensees or customers, and strategic relationships entered into
+Added: by and between our competitors;
+Added: in the mix of our products and support;
+Added: in the growth rate of the encryption technology market;
+Added: timing and costs related to the development or acquisition of technologies or businesses or strategic partnerships;
+Added: of synergy, or the inability to realize expected synergies, resulting from any acquisitions or strategic partnerships;
+Added: inability to execute, complete or integrate efficiently any acquisitions that we may undertake;
+Added: expenses, unforeseen liabilities, or write-downs and any impact on our operating results from any acquisitions we may consummate;
+Added: ability to create a sizeable and productive distribution channel;
+Added: by potential customers (if any), or the customers of our licensees, to purchase encryption solutions from larger, more established
+Added: security vendors, or from their primary network vendors;
+Added: of any revenue recognition and any revenue deferrals;
+Added: or credit difficulties confronting customers (if any), our licensees, or the customers of our licensees, which could adversely affect
+Added: their ability to purchase or pay for our products and offerings;
+Added: cost and potential outcomes of any litigation, which could have a material adverse effect on our business;
+Added: or cyclical fluctuations in our markets;
+Added: accounting pronouncements or changes in our accounting policies, including the potential impact of the adoption and implementation
+Added: of the Financial Accounting Standards Board’s new standard regarding revenue recognition;
+Added: macroeconomic conditions, in some or all regions in which we operate.
+Added: one of the factors above, or the cumulative effect of some of the factors referred to above, may result in significant fluctuations in
+Added: our financial and other operating results.
+Added: This variability and unpredictability could result in our failure to meet our revenue, margin,
+Added: or other operating result expectations, or those of securities analysts or investors for a particular period.
+Added: ,If we fail to meet or
+Added: exceed such expectations for these or any other reasons, the market price of our common stock could fall substantially, and we could
+Added: face costly lawsuits, including securities class action suits.
+Added: face intense competition in our market, especially from larger, well-established companies, and we may lack sufficient financial or other
+Added: resources to maintain or improve our competitive position.
+Added: market for encryption technologies is intensely competitive, and we expect competition to increase in the future from established competitors
+Added: and new market entrants.
+Added: Our main competitors fall into three categories:
+Added: companies that incorporate security or encryption features in their products, such as Google’s Cloud Platform, Amazon’s
+Added: AWS services, and Microsoft’s Azure, or those that have acquired, or may acquire, encryption products or technologies and have
+Added: the technical and financial resources to bring competitive solutions to the market;
+Added: security vendors, such as HashiCorp, that offer encryption products;
+Added: and large companies that offer encryption technologies that compete with some of the features proposed for our products.
+Added: of our existing competitors have, and some of our potential competitors may have, substantial competitive advantages such as:
+Added: name recognition and longer operating histories;
+Added: sales and marketing budgets and resources;
+Added: distribution and established relationships with distributors and customers (if any), or the customers of our licensees;
+Added: customer support resources;
+Added: resources to make strategic acquisitions or enter into strategic partnerships;
+Added: substantially
+Added: greater financial, technical, and other resources.
+Added: addition, some of our larger competitors have substantially broader and more diverse product and services offerings, which may make them
+Added: less susceptible to downturns in a particular market and allow them to leverage their relationships based on other products or incorporate
+Added: functionality into existing products to gain business in a manner that discourages users from purchasing our products and subscriptions,
+Added: including through selling at zero or negative margins, offering concessions, product bundling, or closed technology platforms.
+Added: our smaller competitors that specialize in providing protection from a single type of security threat are often able to deliver these
+Added: specialized encryption or security products to the market more quickly than we can.
+Added: Organizations
+Added: that use legacy products and services may believe that these products and services are sufficient to meet their security needs, or that
+Added: our platform only serves the needs of a portion of the encryption technology market.
+Added: Accordingly, many organizations have invested substantial
+Added: personnel and financial resources to design and operate their networks and have established deep relationships with other providers of
+Added: encryption products.
+Added: As a result, these organizations may prefer to purchase from their existing suppliers rather than add or switch
+Added: to a new supplier such as us, regardless of product performance, features, or greater services offerings, or may be more willing to incrementally
+Added: add solutions to their encryption infrastructure from existing suppliers than to replace it wholesale with our solutions.
+Added: in our market could change rapidly and significantly as a result of technological advancements, partnering or acquisitions by our competitors,
+Added: or continuing market consolidation.
+Added: New start-up companies that innovate and large competitors that are making significant investments
+Added: in research and development may invent similar or superior products and technologies that compete with our products.
+Added: Some of our competitors
+Added: have made or could make acquisitions of businesses that may allow them to offer more directly competitive and comprehensive solutions
+Added: than they had previously offered and adapt more quickly to new technologies and changing needs.
+Added: Our current and potential competitors
+Added: may also establish cooperative relationships among themselves or with third parties that may further enhance their resources.
+Added: These competitive
+Added: pressures in our market or our failure to compete effectively may result in price reductions, fewer orders, reduced revenue and gross
+Added: margins, and loss of market share.
+Added: Any failure to meet and address these factors could seriously harm our business and operating results.
+Added: currently have only two licensees and have no direct end users and will need to obtain additional licensees and/or end users in the future
+Added: to generate revenues.
+Added: of the filing of this report, we don’t have any significant revenue generating licensees or customers.
+Added: In order to generate revenue
+Added: to support our operations we will need to obtain additional licensees and/or customers for our products in the future.
+Added: If we are unable
+Added: to obtain such licensees and/or customers, we will not be able to generate revenues and the value of our stock may decline in value or
+Added: become worthless.
+Added: future revenue and operating results will depend significantly on our ability to retain licensees and the ability of those licensees
+Added: to retain customers, and add new customers, and any decline in our retention rates or failure to add new customers will harm our future
+Added: revenue and operating results.
+Added: anticipate that our future revenue and operating results will depend significantly on our ability to retain licensees and the ability
+Added: of those licensees to retain customers and add new customers.
+Added: In addition, we may not be able to predict or anticipate accurately future
+Added: trends in customer/licensee retention or effectively respond to such trends.
+Added: Our retention rates may decline or fluctuate due to a variety
+Added: of factors, including the following:
+Added: licensees or their customers’ levels of satisfaction or dissatisfaction with our products;
+Added: quality, breadth, and prices of our products;
+Added: general reputation and events impacting that reputation;
+Added: services and related pricing offered by our competitors;
+Added: by new services or changes in law are regulations that impact the need for efficacy of our products and services;
+Added: customer service activities and responsiveness to any customer complaints;
+Added: dissatisfaction if they do not receive the full benefit of our services due to their failure to provide all relevant data;
+Added: dissatisfaction with the methods or extent of our remediation services;
+Added: in target customers’ spending levels as a result of general economic conditions or other factors.
+Added: we do not retain our existing licensees, or they do not retain their existing customers and add new customers, we may not generate revenue
+Added: and/or our revenue may grow more slowly than expected, or decline, and our operating results and gross margins will be negatively impacted.
+Added: In addition, our business and operating results may be harmed if we are unable to increase our retention rates.
+Added: also must continually add new licensees and/or customers, both to replace licensees who cancel or elect not to renew their agreements
+Added: with us and to grow our business beyond our current base.
+Added: If we are unable to attract new licensees in numbers greater than the percentage
+Added: who cancel or elect not to renew their agreements with us, our licensee base will decrease, and our business, operating results, and
+Added: financial condition could be adversely affected.
+Added: network or data security incident may allow unauthorized access to our or our end users’ network or data, harm our reputation,
+Added: create additional liability and adversely impact our financial results.
+Added: Increasingly,
+Added: companies are subject to a wide variety of attacks on their networks on an ongoing basis.
+Added: In addition to traditional computer “hackers , ”
+Added: malicious code (such as viruses and worms), phishing attempts, employee theft or misuse, and denial of service attacks, sophisticated
+Added: nation-state and nation-state supported actors engage in intrusions and attacks (including advanced persistent threat intrusions) and
+Added: add to the risks to internal networks, cloud deployed enterprise and customer-facing environments and the information they store and
+Added: Despite significant efforts to create security barriers to such threats, it is virtually impossible for us to entirely mitigate
+Added: We, and our third-party service providers, may face security threats and attacks from a variety of sources.
+Added: Our data, corporate
+Added: systems, third-party systems and security measures and/or those of our end users may be breached due to the actions of outside parties,
+Added: employee error, malfeasance, a combination of these, or otherwise, and, as a result, an unauthorized party may obtain access to our data.
+Added: Furthermore, as a provider of encryption technologies, we may be a more attractive target for such attacks.
+Added: A breach in our data security
+Added: or an attack against our service availability, or that of our third-party service providers, could impact our networks or networks secured
+Added: by our products and subscriptions, creating system disruptions or slowdowns and exploiting security vulnerabilities of our products,
+Added: and the information stored on our networks or those of our third-party service providers could be accessed, publicly disclosed, altered,
+Added: lost, or stolen, which could subject us to liability and cause us financial harm.
+Added: Any actual or perceived breach of network security
+Added: in our systems or networks, or any other actual or perceived data security incident we or our third-party service providers suffer, could
+Added: result in damage to our reputation, negative publicity, loss of channel partners, licensees, customers and sales, loss of competitive
+Added: advantages over our competitors, increased costs to remedy any problems and otherwise respond to any incident, regulatory investigations
+Added: and enforcement actions, costly litigation, and other liability.
+Added: In addition, we may incur significant costs and operational consequences
+Added: of investigating, remediating, eliminating and putting in place additional tools and devices designed to prevent actual or perceived
+Added: security incidents, as well as the costs to comply with any notification obligations resulting from any security incidents.
+Added: negative outcomes could adversely impact the market perception of our products and customer and investor confidence in our company and,
+Added: moreover, could seriously harm our business or operating results.
+Added: is essential to our business strategy that our technology and network infrastructure remain secure and are perceived by our potential
+Added: licensees, their customers, any customers we have, and others to be secure.
+Added: Despite security measures, however, any network infrastructure
+Added: may be vulnerable to cyber-attacks by hackers and other security threats.
+Added: We may face cyber-attacks that attempt to penetrate our network
+Added: security, sabotage or otherwise disable our research, products and services, misappropriate our proprietary information, or that of our
+Added: licensees, or their or our customers’ and partners’, which may include personally identifiable information, or cause interruptions
+Added: of our internal systems and services.
+Added: Any cyber-attacks could negatively affect our reputation, damage our network infrastructure and
+Added: our ability to deploy our products and services, harm our business relationships, and expose us to financial liability.
+Added: products, systems, and website and the data on these sources may be subject to intentional disruption that could materially harm our
+Added: reputation and future sales.
+Added: our precautions and significant ongoing investments to protect against security risks, data protection breaches, cyber-attacks, and other
+Added: intentional disruptions of our products, we expect to be an ongoing target of attacks specifically designed to impede the performance
+Added: and availability of our offerings and harm our reputation as a company.
+Added: Similarly, experienced computer programmers or other sophisticated
+Added: individuals or entities, including malicious hackers, state-sponsored organizations, and insider threats including actions by employees
+Added: and third-party service providers, may attempt to penetrate our network security or the security of our systems and websites and misappropriate
+Added: proprietary information or cause interruptions of our services, including the operation of the global civilian cyber intelligence threat
+Added: This risk may be increased during the current COVID-19 pandemic as more individuals are working from home and utilize home networks
+Added: for the transmission of sensitive information.
+Added: Such attempts are increasing in number and in technical sophistication, and if successful
+Added: could expose us and the affected parties, to risk of loss or misuse of proprietary or confidential information or disruptions of our
+Added: business operations.
+Added: While we engage in a number of measures aimed to protect against security breaches and to minimize problems if a
+Added: data breach were to occur, our information technology systems and infrastructure may be vulnerable to damage, compromise, disruption,
+Added: and shutdown due to attacks or breaches by hackers or due to other circumstances, such as error or malfeasance by employees or third-party
+Added: service providers or technology malfunction.
+Added: The occurrence of any of these events, as well as a failure to promptly remedy these events
+Added: should they occur, could compromise our systems, and the information stored in our systems could be accessed, publicly disclosed, lost,
+Added: stolen, or damaged.
+Added: Any such circumstance could adversely affect our ability to attract and maintain licensees, and/or for us or our
+Added: licensees to retain customers, as well as strategic partners, cause us to suffer negative publicity, and subject us to legal claims and
+Added: liabilities or regulatory penalties.
+Added: In addition, unauthorized parties might alter information in our databases, which would adversely
+Added: affect both the reliability of that information and our ability to market and perform our services.
+Added: Techniques used to obtain unauthorized
+Added: access or to sabotage systems change frequently, are constantly evolving and generally are difficult to recognize and react to effectively.
+Added: We may be unable to anticipate these techniques or to implement adequate preventive or reactive measures.
+Added: Several recent, highly publicized
+Added: data security breaches at other companies have heightened consumer awareness of this issue and may embolden individuals or groups to
+Added: target our systems or those of our licensees or strategic partners, or our or their customers.
+Added: products are complex and operate in a wide variety of environments, systems and configurations, which could result in failures of our
+Added: products to function as designed and negatively impact our brand recognition and reputation.
+Added: we offer very complex products, errors, defects, disruptions, or other performance problems with our products may and have occurred.
+Added: For example, we may experience disruptions, outages, and other performance problems due to a variety of factors, including infrastructure
+Added: changes, human or software errors, capacity constraints due to an overwhelming number of users accessing our websites simultaneously,
+Added: fraud, or security attacks.
+Added: In some instances, we may not be able to identify the cause or causes of these performance problems within
+Added: an acceptable period of time.
+Added: Interruptions in our products could impact our revenues or cause licensees/customers to cease doing business
+Added: Our operations are dependent upon our ability to protect our technology infrastructure against damage from business continuity
+Added: events that could have a significant disruptive effect on our operations.
+Added: We could potentially lose end user/customer data or experience
+Added: material adverse interruptions to our operations or delivery of products to our clients in a disaster recovery scenario.
+Added: business would be harmed if any of these types of events caused our licensees or customers, or our licensees’ customers or potential
+Added: customers, to believe that our products are unreliable.
+Added: We believe that our brand recognition and reputation are critical aspects of
+Added: our business, to retaining existing licensees and customers, and attracting new licensees and customers.
+Added: Furthermore, negative publicity,
+Added: whether or not justified, relating to events or activities attributed to us, our employees, our strategic partners, our affiliates, or
+Added: others associated with any of these parties, may tarnish our reputation and reduce the value of our brands.
+Added: Damage to our reputation
+Added: may reduce demand for our products and have an adverse effect on our business, operating results, and financial condition.
+Added: any attempts to rebuild our reputation and restore the value of our brands after such an event may be costly and time consuming, and
+Added: such efforts may not ultimately be successful.
+Added: our products do not work properly, our business, financial condition and financial results could be negatively affected, and we could
+Added: experience negative publicity, declining sales and legal liability.
+Added: produce complex products that incorporate leading-edge technology that must operate in a wide variety of technology environments.
+Added: may contain defects or “bugs” that can interfere with expected operations.
+Added: There can be no assurance that our testing programs
+Added: will be adequate to detect all defects prior to the product being introduced, which might decrease customer satisfaction with our products
+Added: and services.
+Added: The product reengineering cost to remedy a product defect could be material to our operating results.
+Added: Our inability to
+Added: cure a product defect could result in the temporary or permanent withdrawal of a product or service, negative publicity, damage to our
+Added: reputation, failure to achieve market acceptance, lost revenue and increased expense, any of which could have a material adverse effect
+Added: on our business, financial condition and financial results.
+Added: or problems with systems and infrastructure supplied by third parties could negatively affect our business, financial condition and financial
+Added: business relies on third-party suppliers of the telecommunications infrastructure.
+Added: We and our licensees, and their customers, will use
+Added: various communications service suppliers and the global internet to provide network access between our data centers and end-users of
+Added: our services.
+Added: If those suppliers do not enable us to provide our licensees and their customers with reliable, real-time access to our
+Added: systems (to the extent required), we may be unable to gain or retain licensees.
+Added: These suppliers periodically experience outages or other
+Added: operational problems as a result of internal system failures or external third-party actions.
+Added: Supplier outages or other problems could
+Added: materially adversely affect our business, financial condition and financial results.
+Added: global financial conditions have been characterized by increased volatility, which could negatively impact our business, prospects, liquidity
+Added: and financial condition.
+Added: global financial conditions and recent market events have been characterized by increased volatility, and the resulting tightening of
+Added: the credit and capital markets has reduced the amount of available liquidity and overall economic activity.
+Added: We cannot guaranty that debt
+Added: or equity financing, or the ability to generate cash from operations, will be available or sufficient to meet or satisfy our initiatives,
+Added: objectives or requirements.
+Added: Our inability to access sufficient amounts of capital on terms acceptable to us for our operations will negatively
+Added: impact our business, prospects, liquidity and financial condition.
+Added: we experience delays and/or defaults in payments, we could be unable to recover all expenditures.
+Added: of the nature of our contracts, at times we will commit resources to projects prior to receiving payments from the counterparty in amounts
+Added: sufficient to cover our expenditures on projects as they are incurred.
+Added: Delays in payments may require us to make a working capital investment.
+Added: Defaults by any of our licensees or their customers could have a significant adverse effect on our revenues, profitability and cash flow.
+Added: Our licensees or their customers may in the future default on their obligations to us or them due to bankruptcy, lack of liquidity, operational
+Added: failure or other reasons deriving from the current general economic environment.
+Added: If a customer defaults on its obligations to us or our
+Added: licensee, or a licensee defaults in its payments to us, it could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition,
+Added: results of operations or cash flows.
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expect to experience intense competition across all markets for our products and services.
−Removed: Although we believe our business and
−Removed: product portfolio will be a competitive advantage, our competitors that are focused on narrower product lines may be more effective
−Removed: in devoting technical, marketing, and financial resources to compete with us.
−Removed: In addition, barriers to entry in our businesses
−Removed: generally are low, and products, once developed, can be distributed broadly and quickly at a relatively low cost.
−Removed: software vendors are devoting considerable efforts to developing software that mimics the features and functionality of our anticipated
−Removed: These competitive pressures may result in decreased sales volumes, price reductions, and/or increased operating costs,
−Removed: such as for marketing and sales incentives, resulting in lower revenue, gross margins, and operating income.
−Removed: business depends on our ability to attract and retain talented employees.
−Removed: business is based on successfully attracting and retaining talented employees.
−Removed: The market for highly skilled workers and leaders
−Removed: in our industry is extremely competitive.
−Removed: If we are less successful in our recruiting efforts, or if we are unable to retain key
−Removed: employees, our ability to develop and deliver successful products and services may be adversely affected.
−Removed: Effective succession
−Removed: planning is also important to our long-term success.
−Removed: Failure to ensure effective transfer of knowledge and smooth transitions
−Removed: involving key employees could hinder our strategic planning and execution.
+Added: Our competitors that are focused on narrower
+Added: product lines may be more effective in devoting technical, marketing, and financial resources to compete with us.
+Added: In addition, barriers
+Added: to entry in our businesses generally are low, and products, once developed, can be distributed broadly and quickly at a relatively low
+Added: Open-source software vendors are devoting considerable efforts to developing software that mimics the features and functionality
+Added: of our anticipated products.
+Added: These competitive pressures may result in decreased sales volumes, price reductions, and/or increased operating
+Added: costs, such as for marketing and sales incentives, resulting in lower revenue, gross margins, and operating income.
in product development schedules may adversely affect our revenues.
−Removed: development of software products is a complex and time-consuming process.
−Removed: New products can require long development and testing
−Removed: Our increasing focus on innovative and new software presents new and complex development issues.
−Removed: Significant delays in
−Removed: new product releases or significant problems in creating new products could adversely affect our revenue.
−Removed: and joint ventures may have an adverse effect on our business.
−Removed: we made acquisitions or entered into joint ventures as part of our long-term business strategy, these transactions would involve
−Removed: significant challenges and risks including that the transactions do not advance our business strategy, that we don’t realize
−Removed: a satisfactory return on our investment, or that we experience difficulty in the integration of new employees, business systems,
−Removed: and technology, or diversion of management’s attention from our other businesses.
−Removed: These events could harm our operating
−Removed: results or financial condition.
−Removed: Related to Our Securities
−Removed: market price for our common stock may be volatile, and you may not be able to sell our stock at a favorable price or at all.
−Removed: factors could cause the market price of our common stock to rise and fall, including:
−Removed: or anticipated variations in our quarterly results of operations;
−Removed: in market valuations of companies in our industry;
−Removed: in expectations of future financial performance;
−Removed: in stock market prices and volumes;
−Removed: of dilutive common stock or other securities in the future;
−Removed: addition or departure of key personnel;
+Added: development of encryption products is a complex and time-consuming process.
+Added: New products can require long development and testing periods.
+Added: Future revenues may include the sale of new products that may not yet be developed.
+Added: Significant delays in product development, including
+Added: quality assurance testing or significant problems in creating new products, could adversely affect our revenue recognition from new products.
+Added: Revenue in certain reporting periods could be lower than anticipated because product development problems could cause the loss of a competitive
+Added: deal, a delay in invoicing a licensee/customer, or the renegotiation of terms to retain a deal.
+Added: we do not accurately predict, prepare for, and respond promptly to rapidly evolving technological and market developments and successfully
+Added: manage product introductions and transitions to meet changing needs in the encryption technology market, our competitive position and
+Added: prospects will be harmed.
+Added: encryption technologies market has grown quickly and is expected to continue to evolve rapidly.
+Added: Moreover, many of our potential licensees
+Added: and their customers operate in markets characterized by rapidly changing technologies and business plans, which require them to add numerous
+Added: network access points and adapt increasingly complex enterprise networks, incorporating a variety of hardware, software applications,
+Added: operating systems, and networking protocols.
+Added: If we fail to accurately predict potential changing needs and emerging technological trends
+Added: in the encryption technology industry, including in the areas of mobility, virtualization, and cloud computing, our business could be
+Added: The technology in our platform is especially complex because it needs to effectively identify and respond to new and increasingly
+Added: sophisticated methods of attack, while minimizing the impact on network performance.
+Added: If we experience unanticipated delays in the availability
+Added: of new products, platform features, and subscriptions, and fail to meet expectations for such availability, our competitive position
+Added: and business prospects will be harmed.
+Added: Additionally,
+Added: we must commit significant resources to developing new platform features before knowing whether our investments will result in products,
+Added: subscriptions, and platform features that the market will accept.
+Added: The success of new platform features depends on several factors, including
+Added: appropriate new product definition, differentiation of new products, subscriptions, and platform features from those of our competitors,
+Added: and market acceptance of these products, services and platform features.
+Added: Moreover, successful new product introduction and transition
+Added: depends on a number of factors including, our ability to manage the risks associated with new product production ramp-up issues, the
+Added: availability of application software for new products, the effective management of purchase commitments and inventory, the availability
+Added: of products in appropriate quantities and costs to meet anticipated demand, and the risk that new products may have quality or other
+Added: defects or deficiencies, especially in the early stages of introduction.
+Added: We cannot assure you that we will successfully identify opportunities
+Added: for new products and subscriptions, develop and bring new products and subscriptions to market in a timely manner, or achieve market
+Added: acceptance of our products and subscriptions, or that products, subscriptions, and technologies developed by others will not render our
+Added: products, subscriptions, or technologies obsolete or noncompetitive.
+Added: possible or perceived defects or vulnerabilities in our products or services, the failure of our products or services to detect or prevent
+Added: a security breach or the misuse of our products could harm our reputation and divert resources.
+Added: our products and services are complex, they may contain defects or errors that are not detected until after their commercial release
+Added: and deployment.
+Added: Defects or vulnerabilities may impede or block network traffic, cause our products or services to be vulnerable to electronic
+Added: break-ins or cause them to fail to help secure networks.
+Added: We are also susceptible to errors, defects, vulnerabilities or attacks that
+Added: may arise at, or be inserted into our products in, different stages in our supply chain, or manufacturing processes, and which are out
+Added: of our control.
+Added: Attacks may target specific unidentified or unresolved vulnerabilities that exist or arrive only in the supply chain,
+Added: making these attacks virtually impossible to anticipate and difficult to defend against.
+Added: Different users deploy and use encryption products
+Added: in different ways, and certain deployments and usages may subject our products to adverse conditions that may negatively impact the effectiveness
+Added: and useful lifetime of our products.
+Added: Our networks and products, including any cloud-based technology we utilize, could be targeted by
+Added: attacks specifically designed to disrupt our business and harm our reputation.
+Added: Our products may not prevent all security threats.
+Added: the techniques used by computer hackers to access or sabotage networks change frequently and generally are not recognized until launched
+Added: against a target, we may be unable to anticipate these techniques.
+Added: An actual, possible or perceived security breach or infection of the
+Added: network of one of the users of our products, regardless of whether the breach is attributable to the failure of our products or services
+Added: to prevent the security breach, could adversely affect the market’s perception of our security products and services and, in some
+Added: instances, subject us to potential liability that is not contractually limited.
+Added: We may not be able to correct any security flaws or vulnerabilities
+Added: promptly, or at all.
+Added: Our products may also be misused by potential end users or third parties who obtain access to our products.
+Added: example, our products could be used to censor private access to certain information on the internet.
+Added: Such use of our products for censorship
+Added: could result in negative press coverage and negatively affect our reputation, even if we take reasonable measures to prevent any improper
+Added: shipment of our products or if our products are provided by an unauthorized third party.
+Added: actual, possible or perceived defects, errors or vulnerabilities in our products, or misuse of our products, could result in:
+Added: expenditure of significant financial and product development resources in efforts to analyze, correct, eliminate or work around errors
+Added: or defects or to address and eliminate vulnerabilities;
+Added: loss of potential licensees, customers or distribution partners;
+Added: or lost revenue;
+Added: or failure to attain market acceptance;
+Added: publicity and harm to our reputation;
+Added: regulatory inquiries or investigations that may be costly and harm our reputation and, in some instances, subject us to potential
+Added: liability that is not contractually limited.
+Added: Related to Our Intellectual Property
+Added: proprietary rights may be difficult to enforce, which could enable others to copy or use aspects of our products without compensating
+Added: rely primarily on patent, trademark, copyright and trade secrets laws and confidentiality procedures and contractual provisions to protect
+Added: our technology.
+Added: Valid patents may not issue from our pending applications, and the claims eventually allowed on any patents may not be
+Added: sufficiently broad to protect our technology or products.
+Added: Any issued patents may be challenged, invalidated or circumvented, and any
+Added: rights granted under these patents may not actually provide adequate defensive protection or competitive advantages to us.
+Added: Patent applications
+Added: in the United States are typically not published until at least 18 months after filing, or, in some cases, not at all, and publications
+Added: of discoveries in industry-related literature lag behind actual discoveries.
+Added: We cannot be certain that we were the first to make the
+Added: inventions claimed in our pending patent applications, or that we were the first to file for patent protection.
+Added: Additionally, the process
+Added: of obtaining patent protection is expensive and time-consuming, and we may not be able to prosecute all necessary or desirable patent
+Added: applications at a reasonable cost or in a timely manner.
+Added: In addition, recent changes to the patent laws in the United States, including
+Added: but not limited to “first to file” and “post-grant review” provisions, may bring into question the validity of
+Added: certain software patents and may make it more difficult and costly to prosecute patent applications.
+Added: As a result, we may not be able
+Added: to obtain adequate patent protection or effectively enforce our issued patents.
+Added: our efforts to protect our proprietary rights, unauthorized parties may attempt to copy aspects of our products or obtain and use information
+Added: that we regard as proprietary.
+Added: We generally enter into confidentiality or license agreements with our employees, consultants, vendors
+Added: and licensees, as the case may be, and generally limit access to and distribution of our proprietary information.
+Added: However, we cannot
+Added: guarantee that the steps taken by us will prevent misappropriation of our technology.
+Added: Policing unauthorized use of our technology or
+Added: products is difficult.
+Added: In addition, the laws of some foreign countries do not protect our proprietary rights to as great an extent as
+Added: the laws of the United States, and many foreign countries do not enforce these laws as diligently as government agencies and private
+Added: parties in the United States.
+Added: From time to time, legal action by us may be necessary to enforce our patents and other intellectual property
+Added: rights, to protect our trade secrets, to determine the validity and scope of the proprietary rights of others or to defend against claims
+Added: of infringement or invalidity.
+Added: Such litigation could result in substantial costs and diversion of resources and could negatively affect
+Added: our business, operating results and financial condition.
+Added: If we are unable to protect our proprietary rights (including aspects of our
+Added: software and products protected other than by patent rights), we may find ourselves at a competitive disadvantage to others who need
+Added: not incur the additional expense, time and effort required to create the innovative products that would compete with our products.
+Added: our end users experience data losses, our brand, reputation and business could be harmed.
+Added: breach of our end users’ network security and systems, or other events that cause the loss or public disclosure of, or access by
+Added: third parties to, our end users’ files or data, could have serious negative consequences for our business, including reduced demand
+Added: for our services, an unwillingness of our licensees or their customers to use our services, harm to our brand and reputation.
+Added: The techniques
+Added: used to obtain unauthorized access, disable or degrade service, or sabotage systems change frequently, often are not recognized until
+Added: launched against a target, and may originate from less regulated or remote areas around the world.
+Added: As a result, our end users may be
+Added: unable to proactively prevent these techniques, implement adequate preventative or reactionary measures, or enforce the laws and regulations
+Added: that govern such activities.
+Added: If our end users experience any data loss, data disruption, or any data corruption or inaccuracies, whether
+Added: caused by security breaches or otherwise, our brand, reputation and business could be harmed.
+Added: insurance (if any) may be inadequate or may not be available in the future on acceptable terms, or at all.
+Added: In addition, our policy may
+Added: not cover claims against us for loss of data or other indirect or consequential damages.
+Added: Defending a suit based on any data loss or system
+Added: disruption, regardless of its merit, could be costly and divert our management’s attention.
+Added: by others that we infringe their proprietary technology or other litigation matters could harm our business.
+Added: and other intellectual property disputes are common in the encryption and technology industries.
+Added: Third parties may in the future assert
+Added: claims of infringement of intellectual property rights against us.
+Added: They may also assert such claims against our licensees, end users
+Added: or partners whom we may have to indemnify against claims that our products infringe the intellectual property rights of third parties.
+Added: As the number of products and competitors in our market increases and overlaps occur, infringement claims may increase.
+Added: infringement by a third party, even those without merit, could cause us to incur substantial costs defending against the claim and could
+Added: distract our management from our business.
+Added: In addition, litigation may involve patent holding companies, non-practicing entities or other
+Added: adverse patent owners who have no relevant product revenue and against whom our own patents may therefore provide little or no deterrence
+Added: or protection.
+Added: third parties may offer a license to their technology, the terms of any offered license may not be acceptable, and the failure to obtain
+Added: a license or the costs associated with any license could cause our business, financial condition and results of operations to be materially
+Added: and adversely affected.
+Added: In addition, some licenses may be non-exclusive and, therefore, our competitors may have access to the same technology
+Added: licensed to us.
+Added: Alternatively, we may be required to develop non-infringing technology, which could require significant time, effort
+Added: and expense, and may ultimately not be successful.
+Added: Furthermore, a successful claimant could secure a judgment or we may agree to a settlement
+Added: that prevents us from distributing certain products or performing certain services or that requires us to pay substantial damages (including
+Added: treble damages if we are found to have willfully infringed such claimant’s patents or copyrights), royalties or other fees.
+Added: of these events could seriously harm our business, financial condition and results of operations.
+Added: may be subject to lawsuits claiming patent infringement.
+Added: We may also be subject to other litigation in addition to patent infringement
+Added: claims, such as employment-related litigation and disputes, as well as general commercial litigation, and could become subject to other
+Added: forms of litigation and disputes, including stockholder litigation.
+Added: If we are unsuccessful in defending any such claims, our operating
+Added: results and financial condition and results may be materially and adversely affected.
+Added: For example, we may be required to pay substantial
+Added: damages and could be prevented from selling certain of our products.
+Added: Litigation, with or without merit, could negatively impact our business,
+Added: reputation and sales in a material fashion.
+Added: rely on the availability of third-party licenses and our inability to maintain those licenses could harm our business.
+Added: of our products or products under development include software or other intellectual property licensed from third parties.
+Added: necessary in the future to renew licenses relating to various aspects of these products or to seek new licenses for existing or new products.
+Added: Licensors may claim we owe them additional license fees for past and future use of their software and other intellectual property or
+Added: that we cannot utilize such software or intellectual property in our products going forward.
+Added: There can be no assurance that the necessary
+Added: licenses would be available on acceptable terms, if at all.
+Added: inability to obtain certain licenses or other rights or to obtain such licenses or rights on favorable terms or for reasonable pricing,
+Added: or the need to engage in litigation regarding these matters, could result in delays in product releases until equivalent technology can
+Added: be identified, licensed or developed, if at all, and integrated into our products and may result in significant license fees and have
+Added: a material adverse effect on our business, operating results, and financial condition.
+Added: Moreover, the inclusion in our products of software
+Added: or other intellectual property licensed from third parties on a non-exclusive basis could limit our ability to differentiate our products
+Added: from those of our competitors.
+Added: also rely on technologies licensed from third parties in order to operate functions of our business.
+Added: If any of these third parties allege
+Added: that we have not properly paid for such licenses or that we have improperly used the technologies under such licenses, we may need to
+Added: pay additional fees or obtain new licenses, and such licenses may not be available on terms acceptable to us or at all or may be costly.
+Added: In any such case, or if we were required to redesign our internal operations to function with new technologies, our business, results
+Added: of operations and financial condition could be harmed.
+Added: use of open-source software in our products could negatively affect our ability to sell our products and subject us to possible litigation.
+Added: current products, and/or those under development, contain software modules licensed to or used by us from third-party authors under “open
+Added: source” licenses.
+Added: Some open-source licenses contain requirements that we make available applicable source code for modifications
+Added: or derivative works we create based upon the type of open-source software we use.
+Added: If we combine our proprietary software with open-source
+Added: software in a certain manner, we could be required to release the source code of our proprietary software to the public under certain
+Added: open-source licenses.
+Added: This would allow our competitors to create similar products with lower development effort and time, and ultimately
+Added: could result in a loss of product sales for us.
+Added: we monitor our use of open-source software to avoid subjecting our products and subscriptions to conditions we do not intend, the terms
+Added: of many open-source licenses have not been interpreted by United States courts, and there is a risk that these licenses could be construed
+Added: in a way that could impose unanticipated conditions or restrictions on our ability to commercialize our products.
+Added: From time to time,
+Added: there have been claims against companies that distribute or use open-source software in their products, asserting that open-source software
+Added: infringes the claimants’ intellectual property rights.
+Added: We could be subject to suits by parties claiming infringement of intellectual
+Added: property rights in what we believe to be licensed open-source software.
+Added: If we are held to have breached the terms of an open source software
+Added: license, we could be required to seek licenses from third parties to continue offering our products on terms that are not economically
+Added: feasible, to reengineer our products, to discontinue the sale of our products if reengineering could not be accomplished on a timely
+Added: basis, or to make generally available, in source code form, our proprietary code, any of which could adversely affect our business, operating
+Added: results, and financial condition.
+Added: addition to risks related to license requirements, usage of open-source software can lead to greater risks than use of third-party commercial
+Added: software, as open-source licensors generally do not provide warranties or assurance of title or controls on origin of the software.
+Added: addition, many of the risks associated with usage of open-source software, such as the lack of warranties or assurances of title, cannot
+Added: be eliminated, and could, if not properly addressed, negatively affect our business.
+Added: We have established processes to help alleviate
+Added: these risks, including a review process for screening requests from our development organizations for the use of open-source software,
+Added: but we cannot be sure that our processes for controlling our use of open-source software in our products will be effective.
+Added: Related to Our Common Stock
+Added: Historically,
+Added: the market price for our common stock has been volatile, and you may not be able to sell our stock at a favorable price, or at all.
+Added: should consider an investment in our common stock to be risky, and you should invest in our common stock and securities convertible into
+Added: our common stock only if you can withstand a complete loss and wide fluctuations in the market value of your investment.
+Added: that may cause the market price of our common stock to fluctuate, in addition to the other risks mentioned in this “Risk Factors”
+Added: section and elsewhere are:
+Added: of our common stock by our stockholders, executives, and directors;
+Added: and limitations in trading volumes of our shares of common stock;
+Added: ability to obtain financings to conduct and complete research and development activities and other business activities;
+Added: timing and success of introductions of new products by us or our competitors or any other change in the competitive dynamics of our
+Added: industry, including consolidation among competitors;
+Added: ability to attract new licensees;
+Added: in the development status of our products;
+Added: in our capital structure or dividend policy, future issuances of securities, sales of large blocks of common stock by our stockholders;
+Added: cash position;
announcements
−Removed: by us or our competitors of acquisitions, investments or strategic alliances;
−Removed: is possible that the proceeds from sales of our common stock may not equal or exceed the prices you paid for the shares after
−Removed: including the costs and fees of making the sales
+Added: and events surrounding financing efforts, including debt and equity securities;
+Added: inability to enter into new markets or develop new products;
+Added: announcements
+Added: of acquisitions, partnerships, collaborations, joint ventures, new products, capital commitments, or other events by us or our competitors;
+Added: in industry conditions or perceptions;
+Added: research reports, recommendation and changes in recommendations, price targets, and withdrawals of coverage;
+Added: and additions of key personnel;
+Added: and litigations related to intellectual properties, proprietary rights, and contractual obligations;
+Added: in applicable laws, rules, regulations, or accounting practices and other dynamics;
+Added: events or factors, many of which may be out of our control.
+Added: addition, if the market for stock of companies in our industry or industries related to our industry, or the stock market in general,
+Added: experiences a loss of investor confidence, the trading price of our common stock could decline for reasons unrelated to our business,
+Added: financial condition and results of operations.
+Added: If any of the foregoing occurs, it could cause our stock price to fall and may expose
+Added: us to lawsuits that, even if unsuccessful, could be costly to defend and a distraction to management.
sales of our common stock, or the perception that such sales might occur, could depress the market price of our common stock.
−Removed: cannot predict whether future issuances of our common stock or resale in the open market will not decrease the market price of
+Added: cannot predict whether future issuances of our common stock, or resale of shares in the open market, will decrease the market price of
our common stock.
−Removed: The consequence of any such issuances or resale of our common stock on our market price may be increased as
−Removed: a result of the fact that our common stock is thinly, or infrequently, traded.
−Removed: The exercise of any options, or the vesting of
−Removed: any restricted stock that we may grant to directors, executive officers and other employees in the future, the issuance of common
−Removed: stock in connection with acquisitions and other issuances of our common stock, may decrease the market price of our common stock.
+Added: The consequence of any such issuances or resale of our common stock on our market price may be increased as a result
+Added: of the fact that our common stock is thinly, or infrequently, traded.
+Added: The exercise of any outstanding options, or the vesting of any
+Added: restricted stock, that we may grant to directors, executive officers and other employees in the future, or the issuance of common stock
+Added: in connection with acquisitions and other issuances of our common stock, may decrease the market price of our common stock.
of our common stock have a risk of potential dilution if we issue additional shares of common stock in the future.
−Removed: exercise of options and warrants and/or the conversion of preferred stock will dilute the shareholder’s ownership percentage.
−Removed: We may issue options to purchase or grant up to an aggregate of 3,000,000 shares of common stock under our 2019 Stock Grant/Option
−Removed: We also have outstanding warrants to purchase 24,290,866 shares of our common stock.
+Added: exercise of outstanding options and warrants to purchase our common stock will dilute existing stockholders’ ownership percentage.
+Added: We currently have outstanding warrants to purchase 87,628,920 shares of our common stock, with a weighted average exercise price of $0.55.
+Added: Our board of directors has authorized, and our stockholders have approved, an employee stock option plan, under which we
+Added: may issue options to purchase or grant up to an aggregate of 8,000,000 shares of common stock.
In the future, we may grant additional
−Removed: stock options, warrants, or convertible securities.
−Removed: The exercise or conversion of stock options, warrants, preferred stock, or
−Removed: convertible securities will dilute the ownership percentage of our other stockholders.
−Removed: The dilutive effect of the exercise or
−Removed: conversion of these securities may adversely affect our ability to obtain additional capital.
−Removed: The holders of these securities
−Removed: may be expected to exercise or convert their securities when we are able to obtain additional equity capital on terms more favorable
−Removed: than these securities.
−Removed: do not intend to pay cash dividends to our stockholders, so you will not receive any return on your investment in our Company
−Removed: prior to selling your interest in the Company.
−Removed: Company has never paid any cash dividends to our stockholders.
−Removed: We currently intend to retain any future earnings for funding growth
−Removed: and, therefore, do not expect to pay any cash dividends in the foreseeable future.
−Removed: As a result, you will not receive any return
−Removed: on your investment prior to selling your shares in our Company, and for the other reasons discussed in this “Risk Factors”
−Removed: section, you may not receive any return on your investment even when you sell your shares in our Company.
+Added: stock options, warrants, preferred stock or convertible securities.
+Added: The exercise or conversion of stock options, warrants, preferred
+Added: stock, or convertible securities will dilute the ownership percentage of our then existing stockholders.
+Added: The dilutive effect of the exercise
+Added: or conversion of these securities may adversely affect our ability to obtain additional capital.
+Added: The holders of these securities may
+Added: be expected to exercise or convert their securities when we are able to obtain additional equity capital on terms more favorable than
+Added: these securities.
+Added: anti-dilutive rights of certain warrants could result in significant dilution to our existing stockholders and/or require us to issue
+Added: a substantially greater number of shares, which may adversely affect the market price of our common stock.
+Added: warrants to purchase 55,549,615 shares of our common stock issued to investors in our recent private placement contain anti-dilution
+Added: rights such that if we issue, or are deemed to have issued, common stock or common stock equivalents at a price less than the then exercise
+Added: price of those warrants, the exercise price of those warrants will automatically be reduced to such lower value, and the number of shares
+Added: of common stock issuable upon exercise thereafter will be adjusted proportionately, so that the aggregate exercise price payable upon
+Added: exercise of such warrants is the same prior to and after such reduction in exercise price.
+Added: As a result, the effect of the anti-dilution
+Added: right may cause significant dilution to our other stockholders.
+Added: The warrants to purchase 8,332,439 shares of our common stock issuable
+Added: upon exercise of warrants issued to the placement agent in the private placement include a weighted average anti-dilution right in the
+Added: event we issue any shares of common stock or equivalents with a value less than the then exercise price.
+Added: As a result, the effect of the
+Added: anti-dilution right may cause significant dilution to our other stockholders.
+Added: The triggering of the anti-dilution rights in the warrants
+Added: issued in the private placement may result in such securities being exercisable for a significant number of additional shares of common
+Added: stock and/or exercisable for a reduced exercise price.
+Added: As a result, the number of shares issuable could prove to be significantly greater
+Added: than they are currently and could result in substantial dilution to our other stockholders.
+Added: common shares are thinly traded, and in the future may continue to be thinly traded, and you may be unable to sell your shares at or
+Added: near ask prices or at all, if you need to sell your shares to raise money or otherwise desire to liquidate such shares.
+Added: cannot predict the extent to which an active public market for our common stock will develop or be sustained due to a number of factors,
+Added: including the fact that we are a small company that is relatively unknown to stock analysts, stock brokers, institutional investors and
+Added: others in the investment community that generate or influence sales volume, and that even if we came to the attention of such persons,
+Added: they tend to be risk-averse and would be reluctant to follow an unproven company such as ours or purchase or recommend the purchase of
+Added: our shares until such time as we become more seasoned and viable.
+Added: As a consequence, there may be periods of several days or more when
+Added: trading activity in our shares is minimal or non-existent, as compared to a seasoned issuer that has a large and steady volume of trading
+Added: activity that will generally support continuous sales without an adverse effect on its share price.
+Added: We cannot give you any assurance
+Added: that a broader or more active public trading market for our common stock will develop or be sustained, or that even current trading levels
+Added: will be sustained.
+Added: You may be unable to sell your common stock at or above your purchase price, if at all, which may result in substantial
+Added: losses to you.
+Added: As a consequence of this lack of liquidity, the trading of relatively small quantities of shares by our stockholders may
+Added: disproportionately influence the price of those shares in either direction.
+Added: The price for our shares could, for example, decline precipitously
+Added: in the event that a large number of our common shares are sold on the market without commensurate demand, as compared to a seasoned issuer
+Added: that could better absorb those sales without adverse impact on its share price.
+Added: As a consequence of this enhanced risk, more risk-adverse
+Added: investors may, under the fear of losing all or most of their investment in the event of negative news or lack of progress, be more inclined
+Added: to sell their shares on the market more quickly and at greater discounts than would be the case with the stock of a seasoned issuer.
+Added: significant number of our shares have been registered for resale, and their sale or potential sale may depress the market price of our
+Added: common stock.
+Added: As of September 30, 2021,
+Added: we had 82,927,311 shares of common stock outstanding.
+Added: In November of this year, we filed a registration statement that registers
+Added: the resale of 55,549,615 shares of our common stock and warrants to purchase an additional 63,882,054 shares of our common stock.
+Added: of September 30, 2021, the 55,549,615 registered shares constitute approximately 67.0% of our outstanding shares of common
+Added: stock, and the 63,882,054 warrants shares would constitute 37.5% of our outstanding common stock, assuming the exercise of all of
+Added: the total outstanding warrants for the purchase of 87,628,920 shares are exercised in full for cash.
+Added: Sales of a significant
+Added: number of shares of our common stock in the public market, or the potential or expectation of such sales, could harm the market price
+Added: of our common stock.
+Added: As large numbers of our common stock are sold, it would increase the supply of our common stock, which would thereby
+Added: cause a decrease in its price.
+Added: addition, the shares of our common stock that has been registered for resale and/or is issuable upon exercise of the warrants issued
+Added: in the private placement may represent overhang that may also adversely affect the market price of our common stock.
+Added: Overhang occurs
+Added: when there is a greater supply of a company’s stock in the market than there is demand for that stock.
+Added: When this happens, the price
+Added: of the company’s stock will decrease, and any additional shares that stockholders attempt to sell in the market will only further
+Added: decrease the share price.
+Added: The exercise price of our outstanding warrants may be less than the trading price of our common stock or may
+Added: create an artificial ceiling on the price of our common stock.
+Added: In the event of such overhang, the holders of those warrants will have
+Added: an incentive to sell their common stock as quickly as possible.
+Added: If the share volume of our common stock cannot absorb the new shares
+Added: issuable upon exercise of those warrants or made available for sale pursuant to the registration statement, then the value of our common
+Added: stock will likely decrease.
+Added: sales and issuances of our securities could result in additional dilution of the percentage ownership of our stockholders and could cause
+Added: our share price to fall.
+Added: expect that we will need significant additional capital in the future to continue our planned operations, including research and development,
+Added: increased marketing, hiring new personnel, commercializing our products, and continuing activities as an operating public company.
+Added: the extent that we raise additional capital by issuing equity securities, our existing stockholders may experience substantial dilution.
+Added: We may sell common stock, convertible securities or other equity securities in one or more transactions, at prices and in a manner in
+Added: which we determine from time to time.
+Added: If we sell common stock, convertible securities or other equity securities in more than one transaction,
+Added: investors may be materially diluted by subsequent sales.
+Added: Such sales may also result in material dilution to our existing stockholders,
+Added: and new investors could gain rights superior to our existing stockholders.
common stock is subject to restrictions on sales by broker-dealers and penny stock rules, which may be detrimental to investors.
−Removed: common stock is subject to Rules 15g-1 through 15g-9 under the Exchange Act, which imposes certain sales practice requirements
−Removed: on broker-dealers who sell our common stock to persons other than established customers and “accredited investors”
−Removed: (as defined in Rule 501(a) of the Securities Act).
−Removed: For transactions covered by this rule, a broker-dealer must make a special
−Removed: suitability determination for the purchaser and have received the purchaser’s written consent to the transaction prior to
−Removed: This rule adversely affects the ability of broker-dealers to sell our common stock and purchasers of our common stock
−Removed: to sell their shares of our common stock.
+Added: common stock is subject to Rules 15g-1 through 15g-9 under the Exchange Act, which imposes certain sales practice requirements on broker-dealers
+Added: who sell our common stock to persons other than established customers and “accredited investors” (as defined in Rule 501(a)
+Added: of the Securities Act).
+Added: For transactions covered by this rule, a broker-dealer must make a special suitability determination for the
+Added: purchaser and receive the purchaser’s written consent to the transaction prior to the sale.
+Added: This rule adversely affects the ability
+Added: of broker-dealers to sell our common stock and holders of our common stock to sell their shares of our common stock.
Additionally,
−Removed: our common stock is subject to SEC regulations applicable to “penny stocks.”
−Removed: Penny stocks include any non-Nasdaq equity
−Removed: security that has a market price of less than $5.00 per share, subject to certain exceptions.
−Removed: The regulations require that prior
−Removed: to any non-exempt buy/sell transaction in a penny stock;
−Removed: a disclosure schedule proscribed by the SEC relating to the penny stock
−Removed: market must be delivered by a broker-dealer to the purchaser of such penny stock.
−Removed: This disclosure must include the amount of commissions
−Removed: payable to both the broker-dealer and the registered representative and current price quotations for our common stock.
−Removed: The regulations
−Removed: also require that monthly statements be sent to holders of a penny stock that disclose recent price information for the penny
−Removed: stock and information of the limited market for penny stocks.
−Removed: These requirements adversely affect the market liquidity of our
−Removed: common stock.
−Removed: Articles of Incorporation allow us to issue preferred stock without shareholder approval.
−Removed: board of directors has “blank check”
−Removed: authority to issue up to 10,000,000 shares of preferred stock and to determine
−Removed: the price, rights, preferences, privileges and restrictions, including voting rights, of those shares without any additional vote
−Removed: or action by our shareholders.
−Removed: The rights of the holders of the common stock will be subject to, and could be materially adversely
−Removed: affected by, the rights of the holders of any preferred stock that may be issued in the future.
−Removed: For example, we could issue preferred
−Removed: stock that has superior rights to dividends or is convertible into shares of common stock.
−Removed: This might adversely affect the market
−Removed: price of the common stock.
−Removed: we experience delays and/or defaults in customer payments, we could be unable to recover all expenditures.
−Removed: of the nature of our contracts, at times we commit resources to projects prior to receiving payments from the customer in amounts
−Removed: sufficient to cover expenditures on projects as they are incurred.
−Removed: Delays in customer payments may require us to make a working
−Removed: capital investment.
−Removed: If a customer defaults in making their payments on a project in which we have devoted resources, it could
−Removed: have a material negative effect on our working capital and results of operations.
−Removed: we do not effectively manage our growth, our existing infrastructure may become strained, and we may be unable to increase revenue
−Removed: past growth that we have experienced, and in the future may experience, may provide challenges to our organization, requiring
−Removed: us to expand our personnel and our operations.
−Removed: Future growth may strain our infrastructure, operations and other managerial and
−Removed: operating resources.
−Removed: If our business resources become strained, our earnings may be adversely affected, and we may be unable to
−Removed: increase revenue growth.
−Removed: Further, we may undertake contractual commitments that exceed our labor resources, which could also adversely
−Removed: affect our earnings and our ability to increase revenue growth.
−Removed: future issuance of equity or of other securities that are convertible into equity may dilute your investment and reduce your equity
−Removed: may choose to raise additional capital in the future, depending on market conditions, strategic considerations and operational
−Removed: requirements.
−Removed: To the extent that additional capital is raised through the issuance of shares of our common stock or other securities
−Removed: convertible into shares of our common stock, our stockholders’
−Removed: ownership interests in our Company will be diluted.
−Removed: issuances of our common stock, other equity securities or other securities convertible into shares of our common stock or other
−Removed: equity securities, the exercise of currently outstanding or future options or warrants for our common stock, or the perception
−Removed: that such sales or exercises may occur, could adversely affect the prevailing market price of our common stock and impair our
−Removed: ability to raise capital through future offerings of equity or equity-linked securities.
−Removed: auditor indicated that certain factors raise substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern.
−Removed: financial statements included with this report are presented under the assumption that we will continue as a going concern, which
−Removed: contemplates the realization of assets and the satisfaction of liabilities in the normal course of business over a reasonable
−Removed: length of time.
−Removed: We had a net loss of approximately $7.0 million for the year ended September 30, 2020 and an accumulated
−Removed: deficit in aggregate of approximately $68.4 million at year end.
−Removed: We are not generating sufficient operating cash flows
−Removed: to support continuing operations and expect to incur further losses in the development of our business.
−Removed: our financial statements for the year ended September 30, 2020, our auditor indicated that certain factors raised substantial
−Removed: doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern.
−Removed: These factors included our accumulated deficit, as well as the fact that
−Removed: we were not generating sufficient cash flows to meet our regular working capital requirements.
−Removed: Our ability to continue as a going
−Removed: concern is dependent upon our ability to generate future profitable operations and/or to obtain the necessary financing to meet
−Removed: our obligations and repay our liabilities arising from normal business operations when they come due.
−Removed: Management’s plan
−Removed: to address our ability to continue as a going concern includes:
−Removed: (1) obtaining debt or equity funding from private placement or
−Removed: institutional sources;
−Removed: and (2) generating cash flow from operations.
−Removed: Although management believes that it will be able to obtain
−Removed: the necessary funding to allow us to remain a going concern through the methods discussed above, there can be no assurances that
−Removed: such methods will prove successful.
−Removed: The accompanying financial statements do not include any adjustments that might result from
−Removed: the outcome of this uncertainty.
+Added: our common stock is subject to SEC regulations applicable to “penny stocks.” Penny stocks include any non-Nasdaq equity security
+Added: that has a market price of less than $5.00 per share, subject to certain exceptions.
+Added: The regulations require that, prior to any non-exempt
+Added: buy/sell transaction in a penny stock, a disclosure schedule proscribed by the SEC relating to the penny stock market must be delivered
+Added: by a broker-dealer to the purchaser of such penny stock.
+Added: This disclosure must include the amount of commissions payable and the current
+Added: price quotations for our common stock.
+Added: The regulations also require that monthly statements be sent to holders of a penny stock that
+Added: disclose recent price information for the penny stock and information regarding the limited market for penny stocks.
+Added: These requirements
+Added: adversely affect the market liquidity of our common stock.
+Added: our common stock is quoted on the OTCQB instead of a national exchange, our investors may have difficulty selling their stock or may
+Added: experience negative volatility on the market price of our common stock.
+Added: common stock is quoted on the OTCQB Market, operated by the OTC Markets Group.
+Added: The OTCQB is often highly illiquid, in part because it
+Added: does not have a national quotation system by which potential investors can follow the market price of shares, except through information
+Added: received and generated by a limited number of broker-dealers that make markets in particular stocks.
+Added: There is a greater chance of volatility
+Added: for securities that trade on the OTCQB, as compared to a national exchange or quotation system.
+Added: This volatility may be caused by a variety
+Added: of factors, including the lack of readily available price quotations, the absence of consistent administrative supervision of bid and
+Added: ask quotations, lower trading volume, and market conditions.
+Added: Investors in our common stock may experience high fluctuations in the market
+Added: price and volume of the trading market for our securities.
+Added: These fluctuations, when they occur, have a negative effect on the market
+Added: price for our securities.
+Added: Accordingly, our stockholders may not be able to realize a fair price for their shares when they determine
+Added: to sell them, or may have to hold them for a substantial period of time until the market for our common stock improves.
+Added: Related to Regulations and Our Compliance with Such Regulations
+Added: previously identified material weaknesses in our disclosure controls and procedures and internal control over financial reporting.
+Added: not remediated, our failure to establish and maintain effective disclosure controls and procedures and internal control over financial
+Added: reporting could result in material misstatements in our financial statements and a failure to meet our reporting and financial obligations,
+Added: each of which could have a material adverse effect on our financial condition and the trading price of our common stock.
+Added: effective internal control over financial reporting and effective disclosure controls and procedures are necessary for us to produce
+Added: reliable financial statements.
+Added: While our disclosure controls and procedures and internal controls over financial reporting are currently
+Added: effective, they have in the past been ineffective and subject to material weaknesses.
+Added: A material weakness is a deficiency, or a combination
+Added: of deficiencies, in internal control over financial reporting, such that there is a reasonable possibility that a material misstatement
+Added: of a company’s annual or interim financial statements will not be prevented or detected on a timely basis.
+Added: A control deficiency
+Added: exists when the design or operation of a control does not allow management or employees, in the normal course of performing their assigned
+Added: functions, to prevent or detect misstatements on a timely basis.
+Added: effective disclosure controls and procedures and effective internal control over financial reporting are necessary for us to produce
+Added: reliable financial statements and we are committed to remediating our material weaknesses in such controls as promptly as possible.
+Added: we cannot assure you as to when these material weaknesses will be remediated or that additional material weaknesses will not arise in
+Added: Any failure by us to remediate material weaknesses, or the development of new material weaknesses in our internal control
+Added: over financial reporting, could result in material misstatements in our financial statements and cause us to fail to meet our reporting
+Added: and financial obligations, which in turn could have a material adverse effect on our financial condition and the trading price of our
+Added: common stock, and/or result in litigation against us or our management.
+Added: are subject to changing laws and regulations.
+Added: government agencies continue to implement extensive requirements on our industry.
+Added: These regulations have both positive and negative impacts,
+Added: with much remaining uncertainty as to how various provisions will ultimately affect our licensees, end users and our business.
+Added: prospective legislation and regulation concerning collection, transmission, storage and use of personal data, we cannot determine what
+Added: effect additional state or federal governmental legislation, regulations, or administrative orders would have on our business in the
+Added: New legislation or regulation may require the reformulation of our business to meet new standards, require us to cease operations,
+Added: impose stricter qualification and/or registration standards, impose additional record keeping, or require expanded consumer protection
+Added: measures (such as heightened notification procedures and data subject access rights).
+Added: failure to comply with laws and regulations applicable to our business could subject us to fines and penalties and could also cause us
+Added: to lose potential licensees and/or for them to lose potential customers in the public sector or negatively impact our ability to contract
+Added: with the public sector.
+Added: business is subject to regulation by various federal, state, regional, local and foreign governmental agencies, including agencies responsible
+Added: for monitoring and enforcing employment and labor laws, workplace safety, product safety, product labeling, environmental laws, consumer
+Added: protection laws, anti-bribery laws, data privacy laws, import and export controls, federal securities laws and tax laws and regulations.
+Added: In certain jurisdictions, these regulatory requirements may be more stringent than in the United States.
+Added: Noncompliance with applicable
+Added: regulations or requirements could subject us to investigations, sanctions, enforcement actions, disgorgement of profits, fines, damages
+Added: and civil and criminal penalties or injunctions.
+Added: If any governmental sanctions are imposed, or if we do not prevail in any possible civil
+Added: or criminal litigation, our business, operating results and financial condition could be adversely affected.
+Added: In addition, responding
+Added: to any legal action will likely result in a significant diversion of our management’s attention and resources and an increase in
+Added: professional fees.
+Added: Enforcement actions and sanctions could harm our business, operating results and financial condition.
+Added: Additionally,
+Added: we may be subject to other legal regimes throughout the world governing data handling, protection and privacy.
+Added: For example, in June of
+Added: 2018, California passed the California Consumer Privacy Act, or the “CCPA,” which provides new data privacy rights for consumers
+Added: and new operational requirements for companies became effective in 2020, and in March 2021 Virginia passed a consumer data protection
+Added: law, the “VCDPA,” which includes similar rights as set forth in the CCPA.
+Added: Fines for noncompliance may be up to $7,500 per
+Added: The costs of compliance with, and other burdens imposed by, the CCPA, the VCDPA and other state or foreign laws, may limit
+Added: the use and adoption of our products and services and could have an adverse impact on our business.
+Added: These laws and regulations impose
+Added: added costs on our business, and failure to comply with these or other applicable regulations and requirements, including non-compliance
+Added: in the past, could lead to claims for damages from our channel partners, penalties, termination of contracts, loss of exclusive rights
+Added: in our intellectual property and temporary suspension or permanent debarment from government contracting.
+Added: Any such damages, penalties,
+Added: disruptions or limitations in our ability to do business with the public sector could have an adverse effect on our business and operating
+Added: restrictions on the sale of our products and services in non-U.S.
+Added: markets could negatively affect our business, financial condition and
+Added: financial results.
+Added: of software products and services using encryption technology such as ours are generally restricted by the U.S.
+Added: some countries impose restrictions on the use of encryption products and services such as ours.
+Added: The cost of compliance with U.S.
+Added: other export laws, or our failure to obtain governmental approvals to offer our products and services in non-U.S.
+Added: markets, could affect
+Added: our ability to sell our products and services and could impair our international expansion.
+Added: We face a variety of other legal and compliance
+Added: If we or our distributors fail to comply with applicable law and regulations, we may become subject to penalties, fines or restrictions
+Added: that could materially adversely affect our business, financial condition and financial results.
+Added: Related to Our Contractual Agreements
+Added: owe amounts to our Chief Executive Officer upon the occurrence of certain change of control transactions.
+Added: to the employment agreement of our chief executive officer, David Chasteen, if we sell all or substantially all of our assets or consummate
+Added: a merger, reorganization or similar transaction in which a majority of the equity in the surviving company is not owned by our stockholders
+Added: immediately prior to such a transaction, then Mr.
+Added: Chasteen will receive a bonus equal to 5% of the “Net Proceeds” we receive
+Added: from such a transaction.
+Added: Net Proceeds are defined as the purchase price, less costs incurred to complete the sale, including but not
+Added: limited to accounting, legal, due diligence, commissions, investment banking fees or similar costs that are necessitated by the applicable
+Added: The requirement to pay 5% of the net proceeds to Mr.
+Added: Chasteen may prevent a change of control that could be accretive to
+Added: stockholders or decrease the amount of funds available to be paid to stockholders upon a change of control.
+Added: accounting treatment of the recently issued warrants could have a material adverse impact on our financial statements.
+Added: provisions of the warrants we issued in the recent private placement, including, but not limited to, various price reset and anti-dilution
+Added: provisions, will cause these instruments to be treated as derivative liabilities.
+Added: As a result, we will be forced to value those warrants
+Added: at the end of each fiscal quarter based upon complex accounting methods for the treatment of derivative liabilities, such as Monte Carlo
+Added: or other similar valuation models, which will calculate the value of those warrants based upon a variety of factors, including price
+Added: volatility in the market price of our common stock.
+Added: We cannot predict the financial impact of the issuance of the warrants on our financial
+Added: statements, specifically our balance sheet, and the deviation in the impact from quarter to quarter.
+Added: stockholders are subject to significant dilution upon the occurrence of certain events which could result in a decrease in our stock
+Added: of the date of this report, we had approximately 87,628,920 shares of our common stock reserved or designated for future issuance upon
+Added: the exercise of outstanding options and warrants, and conversion of convertible instruments.
+Added: Further, we may from time to time make an
+Added: offer to our warrant holders to exchange their outstanding warrants for shares of our common stock, a fewer number of warrants with more
+Added: favorable terms, or a combination thereof, subject to applicable rules and requirements.
+Added: warrants issued in the recent private placement contain provisions that, subject to certain exceptions, reset the exercise price of such
+Added: warrants if at any time while such warrants are outstanding we sell or issue (or are deemed to sell or issue) shares of our common stock
+Added: or rights, warrants, options or other securities or debt convertible, exercisable or exchangeable for shares of our common stock at a
+Added: price below the then current exercise price per share for such warrants ($0.36 per share for the warrants issued to investors and $0.18
+Added: per share for the warrants issued to the placement agent).
+Added: Any future resets to the exercise price of those warrants will have a further
+Added: dilutive effect on our existing stockholders and could result in a decrease in our stock price.
+Added: purchase agreement related to our recent private placement includes various covenants, such that if we don’t comply with such covenants,
+Added: we may suffer potential monetary and other penalties.
+Added: securities purchase agreement we entered into in connection with the recent private placement contains certain covenants.
+Added: comply with these covenants, we will be in breach of our obligations under the securities purchase agreement, which may lead to exercise
+Added: by the investors of the remedies available to them under the securities purchase agreement, which may cause a material impact upon our
+Added: financial condition.
+Added: charter allows us to issue “blank check” preferred stock without stockholder approval.
+Added: to our certificate of incorporation, our board of directors has the authority to issue up to [10 million] shares of “ blank check ”
+Added: preferred stock and to determine the price, rights, preferences, privileges and restrictions, including voting rights, of those shares
+Added: without any additional vote or action by our stockholders.
+Added: Because our board of directors is able to designate the powers and preferences
+Added: of the preferred stock without the vote of a majority of our stockholders, our stockholders will have no control over what designations
+Added: and preferences our preferred stock will have.
+Added: The issuance of shares of preferred stock or the rights associated therewith, could cause
+Added: substantial dilution to our existing stockholders.
+Added: Additionally, the dilutive effect of any preferred stock that we may issue may be
+Added: exacerbated given the fact that such preferred stock may have voting rights and/or other rights or preferences that could provide the
+Added: preferred stockholders with substantial voting control over us and/or give those holders the power to prevent or cause a change in control.
+Added: As a result, the issuance of shares of preferred stock may cause the value of our common stock to decrease.]
+Added: will continue to incur increased costs as a result of being a reporting company and, given our limited capital resources, such additional
+Added: costs may have an adverse impact on our profitability.
+Added: are a reporting company to the Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC.
+Added: The rules and regulations under the Exchange Act require reporting
+Added: companies to provide periodic reports with interactive data files, which require that we engage legal, accounting and auditing professionals,
+Added: and eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) and EDGAR (Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval) service providers.
+Added: engagement of such services can be costly, and we may continue to incur additional financial losses, which may adversely affect our ability
+Added: to continue as a going concern.
+Added: In addition, the Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002, as well as a variety of related rules implemented by the
+Added: SEC, have required changes in corporate governance practices and generally increased the disclosure requirements of public companies.
+Added: For example, as a result of being a reporting company, we are required to file periodic and current reports and other information with
+Added: the SEC, and we have adopted policies regarding disclosure controls and procedures and regularly evaluate those controls and procedures.
+Added: additional costs we continue to incur in connection with being a reporting company (expected to be approximately a hundred thousand dollars
+Added: per year) will continue to further stretch our limited capital resources.
+Added: Due to our limited resources, we have to allocate resources
+Added: away from other productive uses in order to continue to comply with our obligations as an SEC reporting company.
+Added: Further, there is no
+Added: guarantee that we will have sufficient resources to continue to meet our reporting and filing obligations with the SEC as they come due.
+Added: securities or industry analysts do not publish research or reports, or publish unfavorable research or reports, about our business, our
+Added: stock price and trading volume may decline.
+Added: trading market for our common stock will rely in part on the research and reports that industry or financial analysts publish about us,
+Added: our business, our markets and our competitors.
+Added: We do not control these analysts.
+Added: If securities analysts do not cover our common stock,
+Added: the lack of research coverage may adversely affect the market price of our common stock.
+Added: Furthermore, if one or more of the analysts
+Added: who do cover us downgrade our stock, or if those analysts issue other unfavorable commentary about us or our business, our stock price
+Added: would likely decline.
+Added: If one or more of these analysts cease coverage of us or fails to regularly publish reports on us, we could lose
+Added: visibility in the market, and interest in our stock could decrease, which in turn could cause our stock price or trading volume to decline
+Added: and may also impair our ability to expand our business and attract new licensees.
+Added: and economic conditions may negatively impact our business, financial condition and share price.
+Added: over inflation, energy costs, geopolitical issues, unstable global credit markets and financial conditions, and volatile oil prices have
+Added: in the past led to periods of significant economic instability, diminished liquidity and credit availability, declines in consumer confidence
+Added: and discretionary spending, diminished expectations for the global economy and expectations of slower global economic growth going forward,
+Added: increased unemployment rates, and increased credit defaults.
+Added: Our general business strategy may be adversely affected by any such economic
+Added: downturns, volatile business environments and continued unstable or unpredictable economic and market conditions.
+Added: If these conditions
+Added: continue to deteriorate, or do not improve once they occur, it may make any necessary debt or equity financing by us more difficult to
+Added: complete, more costly, and more dilutive.
+Added: Failure to secure any necessary financing in a timely manner and on favorable terms could have
+Added: a material adverse effect on our growth strategy, financial performance, and share price, and could require us to delay or abandon development
+Added: or commercialization plans.
+Added: to adequately manage our planned aggressive growth strategy may harm our business or increase our risk of failure.
+Added: the foreseeable future, we intend to pursue an aggressive growth strategy for the expansion of our operations through increased product
+Added: development and marketing.
+Added: Our ability to rapidly expand our operations will depend upon many factors, including our ability to work
+Added: in a regulated environment, market value-added products effectively to our target markets, establish and maintain strategic relationships
+Added: with suppliers, and obtain adequate capital resources on acceptable terms.
+Added: Any restrictions on our ability to expand may have a materially
+Added: adverse effect on our business, results of operations, and financial condition.
+Added: Accordingly, we may be unable to achieve our targets
+Added: for sales growth, and our operations may not be successful or achieve anticipated operating results.
+Added: Additionally,
+Added: our growth may place a significant strain on our managerial, administrative, operational, and financial resources and our infrastructure.
+Added: Our future success will depend, in part, upon the ability of our management to manage growth effectively.
+Added: This will require us to, among
+Added: other things:
+Added: additional management information systems;
+Added: develop our operating, administrative, legal, financial, and accounting systems and controls;
+Added: additional personnel;
+Added: additional levels of management within our company;
+Added: additional office space;
+Added: close coordination among our engineering, operations, legal, finance, sales and marketing, and client service and support organizations;
+Added: our expanding international operations.
+Added: a result, we may lack the resources to deploy our services on a timely and cost-effective basis.
+Added: Failure to accomplish any of these requirements
+Added: could impair our ability to deliver services in a timely fashion or attract and retain new licensees.
+Added: we do not successfully implement any acquisition strategies, our operating results and prospects could be harmed.
+Added: face intense competition within our industry for acquisitions of businesses, technologies and assets.
+Added: In the future, such competition
+Added: may become more intense.
+Added: As such, even if we are able to identify an acquisition target that we would like to acquire, we may not be
+Added: able to complete the acquisition on commercially reasonable terms, or at all, because of such competition.
+Added: Furthermore, if we enter into
+Added: negotiations that are not ultimately consummated, those negotiations could result in diversion of management time and significant out-of-pocket
+Added: Even if we are able to complete such acquisitions, we may additionally expend significant amounts of cash or incur substantial
+Added: debt to finance them, which indebtedness could result in restrictions on our business and use of available cash.
+Added: In addition, we may
+Added: finance or otherwise complete acquisitions by issuing equity or convertible debt securities, which could result in dilution of our existing
+Added: stockholders.
+Added: If we fail to evaluate and execute acquisitions successfully, we may not be able to realize their benefits.
+Added: If we are unable
+Added: to successfully address any of these risks, our business, financial condition or operating results could be harmed.
+Added: we make any acquisitions, they may disrupt or have a negative impact on our business.
+Added: we make acquisitions in the future, funding permitting, which may not be available on favorable terms, if at all, we could have difficulty
+Added: integrating the acquired company’s assets, personnel and operations with our own.
+Added: We do not anticipate that any acquisitions or
+Added: mergers we may enter into in the future would result in a change of control of us.
+Added: In addition, the key personnel of the acquired business
+Added: may not be willing to work for us.
+Added: We cannot predict the effect any expansion may have on our core business.
+Added: Regardless of whether we
+Added: are successful in making an acquisition, the negotiations could disrupt our ongoing business, distract our management and employees and
+Added: increase our expenses.
+Added: In addition to the risks described above, acquisitions are accompanied by a number of inherent risks, including,
+Added: without limitation, the following:
+Added: difficulty of integrating acquired products, services or operations;
+Added: potential disruption of the ongoing businesses and distraction of our management and the management of any acquired companies;
+Added: in maintaining uniform standards, controls, procedures and policies;
+Added: potential impairment of relationships with employees, licensees, and customers as a result of any integration of new management personnel;
+Added: potential inability or failure to achieve additional sales and enhance our licensee and customer base through cross-marketing of
+Added: the products to new and existing licensees and customers;
+Added: effect of any government regulations that relate to the business acquired;
+Added: unknown liabilities associated with acquired businesses or product lines, or the need to spend significant amounts to retool, reposition
+Added: or modify the marketing and sales of acquired products or operations, or the defense of any litigation, whether or not successful,
+Added: resulting from actions of the acquired company prior to our acquisition;
+Added: expenses under the labor, environmental and other laws of various jurisdictions.
+Added: business could be severely impaired if and to the extent that we are unable to succeed in addressing any of these risks or other problems
+Added: encountered in connection with an acquisition, many of which cannot be presently identified.
+Added: These risks and problems could disrupt our
+Added: ongoing business, distract our management and employees, increase our expenses and adversely affect our results of operations.
+Added: may apply working capital and future funding to uses that ultimately do not improve our operating results or increase the value of our
+Added: general, we have complete discretion over the use of our working capital and any new investment capital we may obtain in the future.
+Added: Because of the number and variety of factors that could determine our use of funds, our ultimate expenditure of funds (and their uses)
+Added: may vary substantially from our current intended operating plan for such funds.
+Added: intend to use existing working capital and future funding to support the development of our products and services, product purchases
+Added: in our wholesale distribution division, the expansion of our marketing, or the support of operations to educate our end users.
+Added: also use capital for market and network expansion, acquisitions, and general working capital purposes.
+Added: However, we do not have more specific
+Added: plans for the use and expenditure of our capital.
+Added: Our management has broad discretion to use any or all of our available capital reserves.
+Added: Our capital could be applied in ways that do not improve our operating results or otherwise increase the value of a stockholder’s
+Added: websites may encounter technical problems and service interruptions.
+Added: websites may in the future experience slower response times or interruptions as a result of increased traffic or other reasons.
+Added: delays and interruptions resulting from failure to maintain Internet service connections to our site could frustrate visitors and reduce
+Added: our future web site traffic, which could have a material adverse effect on our business.
+Added: sale of shares by our directors and officers may adversely affect the market price for our shares.
+Added: of significant amounts of shares held by our officers and directors, or the prospect of such sales, could adversely affect the market
+Added: price of our common stock.
+Added: Our management’s stock ownership may discourage a potential acquirer from making a tender offer or otherwise
+Added: attempting to obtain control of us, which in turn could reduce our stock price or prevent our stockholders from realizing a premium over
+Added: our stock price.
+Added: may be diluted significantly through our efforts to obtain financing and satisfy obligations through the issuance of additional shares
+Added: of our common stock.
+Added: possible, our board of directors will attempt to use non-cash consideration to satisfy obligations.
+Added: In many instances, we believe that
+Added: the non-cash consideration will consist of restricted shares of our common stock, or when shares are issued to our officers, directors
+Added: and applicable consultants as compensation.
+Added: Our board of directors has authority, without action or vote of the stockholders to issue
+Added: all or part of the authorized but unissued shares of our common stock.
+Added: In addition, we may attempt to raise capital by selling shares
+Added: of our common stock, possibly at a discount to market.
+Added: These actions will result in dilution of the ownership interests of existing stockholders,
+Added: which may further dilute our common stock book value, and that dilution may be material.
+Added: Such issuances may also serve to enhance existing
+Added: management’s ability to maintain control of us because the shares may be issued to parties or entities committed to supporting
+Added: existing management.
+Added: we do not effectively manage our growth, our existing infrastructure may become strained, and we may be unable to increase revenue growth.
+Added: past growth that we have experienced, and in the future may experience, may provide challenges to our organization, requiring us to expand
+Added: our personnel and our operations.
+Added: Future growth may strain our infrastructure, operations and other managerial and operating resources.
+Added: If our business resources become strained, our earnings may be adversely affected, and we may be unable to increase revenue growth.
+Added: we may undertake contractual commitments that exceed our labor resources, which could also adversely affect our earnings and our ability
+Added: to increase revenue growth.
+Added: growth depends in part on the success of our strategic relationships with third parties.
+Added: order to grow our business, we anticipate that we will need to continue to depend on our relationships with third parties, including
+Added: our technology providers.
+Added: Identifying such third parties, and negotiating and documenting relationships with them, requires significant
+Added: time and resources.
+Added: Our competitors may be effective in providing incentives to third parties to favor their products or services, over
+Added: utilization of our products and services.
+Added: In addition, acquisitions of our business partners by our competitors could result in a decrease
+Added: in the number of our current and potential licensees and end users.
+Added: If we are unsuccessful in establishing or maintaining our relationships
+Added: with third parties, our ability to compete in the marketplace or to grow our revenue could be impaired and our results of operations
+Added: Even if we are successful, we cannot assure you that these relationships will result in increased use of our products or
+Added: increased revenue.
+Added: litigation, government investigations, and other proceedings may adversely affect our business and results of operations.
+Added: a company offering a wide range of products and services, we are regularly subject to actual and threatened claims, litigation, reviews,
+Added: investigations, and other proceedings, including proceedings relating to goods and services offered by us and by third parties, and other
+Added: Any of these types of proceedings, including currently pending proceedings as discussed herein, may have an adverse effect on
+Added: us because of legal costs, disruption of our operations, diversion of management resources, negative publicity, and other factors.
+Added: outcomes of these matters are inherently unpredictable and subject to significant uncertainties.
+Added: Determining legal reserves and possible
+Added: losses from such matters involves judgment and may not reflect the full range of uncertainties and unpredictable outcomes.
+Added: final resolution of such matters, we may be exposed to losses in excess of the amount recorded, and such amounts could be material.
+Added: any of our estimates and assumptions change or prove to have been incorrect, it could have a material effect on our business, consolidated
+Added: financial position, results of operations, or cash flows.
+Added: In addition, it is possible that a resolution of one or more such proceedings,
+Added: including as a result of a settlement, could require us to make substantial future payments, prevent us from offering certain products
+Added: or services, require us to change our business practices in a manner materially adverse to our business, requiring development of non-infringing
+Added: or otherwise altered products or technologies, damaging our reputation, or otherwise having a material effect on our operations.
+Added: have never paid or declared any dividends on our common stock.
+Added: have never paid or declared any dividends on our common stock or preferred stock.
+Added: Likewise, we do not anticipate paying, in the near
+Added: future, dividends or distributions on our common stock.
+Added: Any future dividends on our common stock will be declared at the discretion of
+Added: our board of directors and will depend on, among other things, our earnings, our financial requirements for future operations and growth,
+Added: and other facts as we may then deem appropriate.
+Added: Since we do not anticipate paying cash dividends on our common stock, return on your
+Added: investment, if any, will depend solely on an increase, if any, in the market value of our common stock.
+Added: all of the foregoing reasons and others set forth herein, an investment in our securities involves a high degree of risk.
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