Is email encryption the future of IT security?
By Davey Winder in Editorial
A global market survey conducted by Astaro Corporation has suggested that more than 65 percent of IT department will be investing additional security funding into WLAN security, vulnerability scanning and web application firewalling during the next fiscal year.
The survey included 2800 IT pros from industries as diverse as manufacturing and healthcare, education and financial services. 100 percent of those surveyed relied on firewalls for the first line of defence when it comes to external attack, no great surprise there then. Antivirus and Antispam on 91.5 and 90 percent respectively, were listed as the next most used security technologies with VPN products on 81 percent and Intrusion Protection Systems on 74 percent following fairly close behind. I’m not convinced that Antispam is actually an IT security product, despite spam being a transport mechanism for threats. However, that’s perhaps an argument for another blog posting.
70 percent of the survey respondents were rightly concerned with preventing unauthorised users from accessing the corporate network or confidential data, slightly more (72 percent) concluded that keeping an overview of possible security weak points will be the biggest challenge for IT departments over the next five years. But it looks like email encryption could be the big surprise as far as the IT security market is concerned, with 22 percent already using it and 67 percent worried about preventing the leakage of company data.
“Today companies are finding that they can’t rely on the basic network security they had in place just a few years ago” says Jan Hichert, CEO at Astaro. “Network administrators are continuously faced with the task of updating and adding layers of protection in order to keep their networks secure against the latest threats.”
Amen to that, and if the survey has revealed a trend for the greater use of email encryption then network admins should be happy enough as it will reduce the workload when it comes to keeping company data out of trouble.
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Loading ...Comment by Simon Bisson and Mary Branscombe - November 3, 2007 on 10:20 pm
Big surprise or final dumbstruck realisation? -Mary
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