Future Opportunities in IT Security
As organizations continue to align IT solutions with their business processes, spend on vulnerability assessment and security management is growing rapidly, which indicates a desire to measure and understand IT security risks in business terms. In addition, the nature of the threats that organizations face is constantly evolving as new technologies, practices and attack vectors emerge. Future Opportunities in IT Security is a new management report that provides insights into the thinking behind IT security decision makers and buyers. This report examines the important factors influencing investment in IT security and vendor choice. It gives forecasts for IT spending on individual security products up to 2010 and investigates the emerging security threats, the vendor opportunity by region and vertical, as well as by size of organization. It also analyzes the fast-growing market for security and privacy (S&P) outsourcing, and profiles the leading vendors - including Symantec, Check Point, McAfee and Microsoft - in the market. Use the invaluable analysis in this new report to plan ahead, avoid potential risks and create a strong competitive advantage.

Some key findings in this new report...
Security is an issue that remains a number one IT priority for most organizations.
New security areas such as security information management and vulnerability and patch management will grow rapidly up to 2010.
As the enterprise IT security market has grown, the financial services and communications sectors have grown faster than other sectors. Previous years have shown retail and manufacturing sectors have accepted the need for greater security investment more slowly, and will consequently grow at a faster rate than the market going forward.
Many vendors view the SMB sector as the fastest growth market in the security market; the SMB space will also provide an important growth opportunity for hosted and managed security services.
Security and privacy (S&P) managed services represent the fastest growing infrastructure services market.

Top reasons to order this new report today...
Understand enterprises’ approach to buying IT security.
Develop go-to-market strategies that target organization’s weak spots and provide the support they are looking for, thereby improving sales.
Target emerging, fast-growing security markets more effectively.
Identify market opportunities by region, vertical and size band.
Discover and understand the product roadmaps of the leading vendors.
Design channel strategies to win a share of the SMB IT security market.

Some key questions answered in this report...
What are organization’s main security concerns and requirements?
Who is the buying decision maker for IT security within different sized organizations?
Where are the market opportunities by region and vertical?
Who is the market leader in the security market?
Which other vendors dominate the security market?
How can I target IT security decision makers more effectively?
What are the fastest growing areas within the security market?
How popular is security outsourcing now – and in coming years?

Some hot issues covered in this report...
Worms targeting applications rather than operating systems are on the increase - how malware writers no longer go for large Blaster-style damaging attacks.
Aligning products and solutions along vertical lines - and how this will help vendors.
Large enterprises - their deployment of security solutions compared to medium or smaller sized organizations.
SMB sector as the fastest growth sector in the security market - and how vendors must move fast to secure channel partners.
Security and privacy (S&P) managed services - and how enterprises are looking to simplify the management of their increasingly complex IT security systems.

This new report will provide you with...
Worms targeting applications rather than operating systems are on the increase - how malware writers no longer go for large Blaster-style damaging attacks.
Aligning products and solutions along vertical lines - and how this will help vendors.
Large enterprises - their deployment of security solutions compared to medium or smaller sized organizations.
SMB sector as the fastest growth sector in the security market - and how vendors must move fast to secure channel partners.
Security and privacy (S&P) managed services - and how enterprises are looking to simplify the management of their increasingly complex IT security systems.

This new report will provide you with...
Explanation of how enterprises approach IT security buying decisions and what factors influence their choice of vendor.
Outline of vendor strategies for improving sales.
Competitive vendor analysis.
Explanation of trends occurring in the marketplace.
Breakdown of spending on IT security by product type up to 2010.
Identification of emerging and fast-growing security markets.