Of course, the value proposition only works if the underlying technology landscape is highly heterogeneous: if a de jure or de facto standard emerges the value of the middleware technology diminishes quickly.
Corporate concerns with endpoint security, regulatory compliance, spyware, spam, worms, viruses, digital identities, mobility and complexity will help to drive the security software market to achieve almost $6bn in revenue in 2009," said Raschke.
The project was supposed to cut €66m off the IT budget but Cameron admits the open source landscape has changed somewhat since then. As well as tackling complexity he is well aware that he needs to improve the cost structure of a 4,000-strong...
Such a strong prediction is likely to draw fresh criticism of those peddling the mobile malware threat but Sans joins antivirus vendors such as F-Secure, McAfee and Symantec in making the case for greater mobile security.
If not, then the endpoint has to be treated as untrusted and corporate services have to be delivered through virtually private managed network connections. Remote access to IT increases this complexity.
The company's report, released on Friday, on the security threat landscape for the first half of 2008, and in its outlook for the second half of the year, warned that "iPhone customers will likely suffer from mobile malware threats until security...
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