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The survey, conducted by Evans Data Corporation, highlights that almost one in four developers (23 percent) have devised their own security mechanisms to protect Web services transactions, 22 percent use SSL, nine percent use SOAP headers and 68 percent have either adopted a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), or are in the process of developing an adoption plan for an SOA. But actual implementations are still few and far between.

Further more, 79 percent say they encounter organization headwinds when attempting to move their Web services efforts forward and 19 percent also say they can’t find enough IT talent versed in Web services development.

“We found that a majority of companies are not sharing their Web services with other business units across the enterprise,” said Joe McKendrick, Evans Data’s Web services/SOA analyst. “This is a result of not having enough IT talent with Web services skills, as well as management buy-in to the concept.

Web services and SOA need skilled evangelists to help drive the adoption of the technology forward. While one of the main value propositions of Web services is sharing them across an enterprise, the survey has found that 55% of Web services are being shared with only one or no other business units within their companies.

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“Companies recognize how vulnerable they are,” said Jerry Boltin, a senior partner and the Business Intelligence practice leader in CSC’s Consulting Group. “They see the growing number of news articles about customer information being accessed or stolen and they wonder, ‘If these guys can be breached, how secure are we?'”

Financial executives ranked “Facilitating analysis and decision making (business intelligence)” as the area most constrained by the lack of appropriate technology solutions.

The survey also found a much higher than expected level of planned investments in analytic and decision support information, particularly among large entities.

The survey examined a variety of additional pertinent issues, including financial executives’ views related to financial management, IT strategies and the use of technology applications.

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Computer Associates and Visual Networks have both released new VoIP management and assessment tools.

“Companies are spending a lot of money to do pre-assessments before they make VoIP deployments,” said Jeff Schmitz, senior vice president of marketing at Visual Networks. The Select VoIP MRI (Management, Reporting, and Integrity) module includes features that assess a network’s capability of handling planned VoIP rollouts, monitor VoIP traffic after deployment, and manage and report problems. The Select VoIP MRI also aids pre-assessments by providing information such as how many IP phones a site can handle.

Earlier this month, Computer Associates added a VoIP network performance assurance and assessment component to its Unicenter NSM (Network and Systems Management) software. CA integrated Viola Networks’ NetAlly RealTime with its Unicenter NSM to provide a single network-management console for VoIP and data management.

The U.S. VoIP market will hit $19 billion in 2009, up from $1.3 billion last year, according to a report by NewMarket Technology.

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A recent report, commissioned by ProofPoint, summarizes the company’s survey of 300 decision makers at large businesses, highlights the fact that businesses that protecting against leaks of proprietary information via email and ensuring compliance with corporate policies are the top email concerns among organizations.

The survey revealed that more than 33 percent of companies had email leak of confidential information, 88 percent of companies said they have acceptable user policies for email, 18 percent report that they have deploy technologies to enforce corporate policies, 25 percent of companies deployed monitoring software for web mail traffic and 70 percent said that they are concerned about web-based email systems and a conduit for the exposure of confidential information.

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According to the study, there are about 683 million email users worldwide, with nearly 1.2 billion active email accounts.

In regards to instant messaging (IM), the study shows strong growth in both corporate and consumer IM use. The IM Management segment of the market, which develops products to manage, archive and secure IM systems is poised for particularly strong growth, growing from $39 million in 2005 to $118 million in 2009.

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Speaking at the AusCert conference on Queensland’s Gold Coast, where the survey was released yesterday, Gillespie said respondents admitted education has to be directed to IT security staff so they can more effectively manage the technology already in place.

“Between 98 and 100 percent of companies surveyed use antivirus software yet they are still getting infected; this wouldn’t be happening if tools were employed properly,” Gillespie said. Nearly 70 percent of respondents in the survey said their IT security staff have insufficient experience and training to meet the needs of their organization. About 79 percent are concerned about the level of security training for general staff, and 76 percent are concerned about the lack of training within their organizations.

The view within enterprises is that more dollars will solve security problems, but it is really about implementing and maintaining the right policies, Gillespie said.

“There is a lack of information security policies and poor education related to following policies. The failure of using policies was instrumental in the downfall of one of the world’s most famous chartered accountancy firms.”

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