Keng has been recognized by several key organizations as one of the industry's "most influential people on the Internet". ZDNet selected him as one of the "50 Smartest People" in 2000. He is widely known to be able to spot new markets and emerging technologies and often recognized as one who is capable of creating new category defining products. Keng is recognized as one of the inventors of the Java application server through his founding of Kiva Software – an application server pioneer. Kiva Software was the 1st to introduce an enterprise class Java Application Server to market in 1996 and in the process coined the terms Java and Web Application Server and led to the emergence of the Enterprise Java Bean (EJB) and J2EE standards. Through his works and vision on internet and network security, Sygate Technologies – which he help launched in 1998 - has successfully established itself as the market leader of the enterprise endpoint security enforcement software.