Interest is growing in non-traditionally outsourced security technologies, including log management and patch and configuration management. The market for security services providers grew by about 8% in 2009, despite the economic turmoil that stagnated some security budgets. And the growth is not necessarily all about cutting costs, said Khalid Kark, vice president and principal analyst at Cambridge, Mass.-based Forrester Research Inc. More important to most enterprises is 24×7 protection and increased security competency that many service providers can offer.