A Yankee Group report suggests that the need to stay ahead of hackers will drive a move to outsource security to managed service providers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The need to stay ahead of the hacker curve will drive nearly 90% of big U.S. companies to outsource their security to managed service providers by the end of the decade, a report released Monday suggested.<\/p>\n
According to the Yankee Group, businesses will hand over security–initially for perimeter defenses but eventually for inside-the-firewall protection–to managed security service providers to the tune of $3.7 billion by 2008, a jump from 2004’s estimated $2.4 billion.<\/p>\n
“Enterprises are outsourcing more technology in general,” said Matthew Kovar, a VP at Yankee Group’s security solutions group.<\/p>\n
Enterprises know what they have to do, but more of them will see that [security] isn’t a core competency,” he added, and will hand the reins to a managed security service provider.<\/p>\n
Security outsourcing will prove attractive, said Kovar, for reasons other than the cost savings typically cited by companies that farm out business processes.<\/p>\n
Among the drivers toward managed services are the accelerated attacks of today’s threats–giving enterprises virtually no time to put up defenses on their own before an attack infiltrates a network–legislative requirements such as HIPAA and Sarbanes-Oxley, and the trend toward pushing out the network perimeter to include partners and remote workers.<\/p>\n
These and other factors are outpacing the average company’s ability to keep up with the latest counter-measures and techniques to thwart attacks, Kovar said in his report.<\/p>\n
While managed services biggest number of customers are currently those subscribing to anti-spam services, managed firewalls aren’t far behind, said Kovar.<\/p>\n
And as the trend continues, other security defenses now solved by hardware, such as intrusion detection and intrusion prevention, will also be shipped out for others to handle.<\/p>\n
“One of the easiest managed services to see success is E-mail anti-spam services,” Kovar said.<\/p>\n
The vendors that Yankee Group sees in the top tier include TruSecure and Symantec, with Unisys, Netsec, Solutionary, Internet Security Systems, and RedSiren close on their heels.<\/p>\n
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