Security Surpasses Cost-Control As Top IT Challenge, IDC Survey
Finds
Laptop Battery FRAMINGHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 26, 2004--Security has
surpassed cost-control and cost containment issues as a concern
that tops the list of IT challenges, IDC research shows. According
to IDC's latest Enterprise Technology Trends (ETT) survey -
conducted between April and May 2004 with a respondent base of 933
U.S. and Canadian companies - over three quarters of IT and
business executives rated this challenge as an extremely or very
significant concern or IT challenge for their organizations.
"Our latest survey findings indicate that IT spending on security
and business continuity has increased at 59% of organizations in
the last 12 months," said Lucie Draper, program manager for IDC's
Enterprise Technology Trends, Vertical Markets Group. "We believe
that despite the economic environment, and in some cases because of
the geopolitical environment, the prospects for vendors of security
technologies are good."
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Microsoft -- IDC found that the biggest difference between organizations
that have a corporate IT security officer and those that do not
have someone in that position is whether security policies and
procedures are in place, namely an organization-wide disaster
recovery and business continuity strategy and regular security risk
analyses, security auditing, or security status tracking.
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Laptop Computers -- Ubiquitous access to the Internet followed by a reaction to a
major security breach at one's company were most frequently rated
as having a high influence on an organization's investments in
security technology and deployment of security measures. Four in
ten North American organizations rated security audit results as
having a high influence on the deployment of security measures.
Almost 10 years later, the trend of abandoning desktop computers in favor of laptops is creating a new era in computing security.
Laptop Computer -- Corporate compliance and government regulations as they
relate to security and privacy remain of particular concern to the
banking and the healthcare services industries.
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Desktop Computer -- One or more of an array of security technologies are in some
stage of adoption at most companies. While some technologies, such
as antiviral tools, are already in place at the vast majority of
North American companies, others are at different stages of the
evaluation or implementation process, and in some cases these vary
markedly by industry segment.
Notebooks The research in this press release is taken from two recently
published documents addressing security technology adoption. The
IDC study, The Total Security Solution: Vertical Markets
Investments in Corporate and Public Security (IDC #31606),
addresses security technology adoption trends. Security
technologies examined in this document include antivirus tools,
hardware-based firewall technologies, security management
applications, intrusion detection, encryption, hardware- and
software-based tokens, and client and server certificates.
Lenovo The study, What Factors and Events are Driving Investments in
Security Technology in 2004? (IDC #31618), addresses security
technology adoption drivers and takes a look at which areas are
driving or affecting the deployment of security measures at North
American organizations.
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508-988-7988 or email sales@idc.com.
Travelstar For additional information about IDC's Vertical Markets Research
Group, contact Virginia Lehr at 508-935-4188 or vlehr@idc.com.
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strategy. Over 700 IDC analysts in 50 countries provide local
expertise and insights on technology markets. Business executives
and IT managers have relied for 40 years on our advice to make
decisions that contribute to the success of their
organizations.
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Lucie Draper, 508-988-6864
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or
Virginia Lehr, 508-935-4188
vlehr@idc.com
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