Monday, 30 November 2009

What are your Security Priorities?

Throughout each year, Gartner surveys hundreds of enterprise security end users for its IT Key Metrics benchmarking database, and each year Gartner publishes a high-level view of its findings.

Here's a look at the "Top 10 Security Priorities, Worldwide" from this year's survey, based on respondents' answers:

  1. Intrusion Detection and Prevention
  2. Patch Management
  3. Data Loss Prevention
  4. Antivirus
  5. User Provisioning or Identity Management
  6. Vulnerability Assessment
  7. Firewalls
  8. Security Information and Event Management
  9. Network Access Control
  10. Remote-Access or Site-to-Site VPN

Technologies that were mentioned but did not make the "Top 10 include storage/server encryption, email encryption, strong authentication, web filtering, spam filtering, and "integrated security appliance".

For the third year in a row, intrusion prevention tops the list. Patch management moved way up, from #8 to #2.

Doe's this allign with your 2010 Security Strategy?

Or indeed, do you need help formulating your IT Security Strategy? If so call us on 0845 260 5757 and ask to speak to Charles Barratt or email me