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`Launch of Forrester’s 2010 Security
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`APR 15 2010
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`We’re just ramping up at Forrester to start our 2010 Business Data Services’ Security
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`Survey. To begin, I’ve started taking a measured look at last year’s questions and data.
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`Additionally, I’ll be incorporating input from those analysts with their ears closest to the
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`ground in various areas, and will be considering the feedback from our existing BDS
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`clients.
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`I also welcome input here into what you would find useful for us to ask of senior IT
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`security decision-makers, as development of the survey is take place over the next three
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`weeks.
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`The survey is scheduled to be fielded in May and early June—with the final data set
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`becoming available in July. The projected sample size is 2,200 organizations across US,
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`Canada, France, UK, and Germany: split roughly 2:1 between North America and Europe,
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`and with a 55/45 split for SMBs (20-1000 employees) vs. enterprises (1000+ employees).
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`Concurrently, we ask a separate set of questions to respondents from “very small
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`businesses” (VSBs) with 2-19 employees. We also set quotas around industry groupings,
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`so each industry is appropriately represented. We source our panel from LinkedIn, which
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`provides an excellent quality of respondents.
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`The Security Survey is an invaluable tool that provides insight into a range of topics critical
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`for strategy decision-making: IT Security priorities, challenges; organizational structure
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`and responsibilities; security budgets; current adoption and across all security technology
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`segments, be they as products or as SaaS/managed services, along with associated
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`drivers and challenges around the technology.
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`Here are a few valuable data points from last year’s survey:
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`Contrary to popular wisdom, enterprises are adopting managed security services more
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`quickly than SMBs in 9 of the 12 security service categories we asked about
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`IT Security decision-makers expressed even more concern about consumerization
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`(smart phones, web 2.0, etc) than about cloud or virtualization.
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`The level of compliance with PCI showed little progress: from 2007 to 2009, PCI
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`compliance only rose from 46% to 51% among enterprises, and from 35% to 47% among
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`SMBs. North American organizations are still not where they should be, and the level of
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`PCI compliance in Europe is especially poor.
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`“Managing vulnerabilities and complex threats” moved several slots up the ranks to
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`become the #2 IT security priority
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`Naturally, we try to keep a lot of the survey the same year to year so we get useful
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`trending data. But there are also several areas we’re thinking about adding or delving into
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`more deeply, such as:
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`Emerging security issues: securing the cloud, cyber-security and critical infrastructure
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`protection, and security associated with “smart” initiatives
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`More insight into data breaches: not just the number and average cost, but the vector
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`for data loss and the indirect impact (loss of customers, bad publicity, etc.)
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`Security policy and technologies in place or planned to address both mobility and
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`adoption of Web 2.0
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`If you have anything to share, please reach out to me through this blog or directly at
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`jpenn@forrester.com
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`Thanks!
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