Are Managed Security Services Ready for Prime Time?
By July 13, 2001 By Chris King Information security awareness is at an all-time high. META Group research indicates information security ranks as a top priority among Global 2000 CIOs. Trade and business press covering security continue to drive awareness among both executives and end users. www.metagroup.com While organizations are beginning to realize the importance of information security, products to address the issue remain complex and immature. In addition, qualified information security personnel, despite current economic conditions, will remain in short supply at least until 2004. Although a similar scenario in any other IT domain normally drives a boom outsourcing market, outsourcing security is a relatively new concept that faces several obstacles to acceptance and maturation. Nonetheless, there has been a massive proliferation of security services vendors (and those that hope to sell to them) during the past 12 months. We expect this proliferation to continue, but vendors ov
