Security pros look to wireless, biometrics
Written by Anonymous on 12:35 AMCompanies plan to invest in wireless security and biometric technologies over the next year and increasingly view continuing education as a necessity to make their businesses more secure, according to a recently published survey.
The report, published by business-intelligence firm Frost & Sullivan and funded by security-certification group (ISC)2, found that companies in each of three major regions -- the Americas, Europe and Asia -- listed wireless-security, biometric-authentication and business-continuity systems in their top-5 technologies to deploy in the next year. Based on responses from more than 7,500 corporations and public-sector groups, the survey found that companies continue to invest in security, largely because of a number of high-profile data breaches covered by the media.
"Customer and public confidence will drive security up the priority list, based on the increasing impact that evolving threats have on the reputation and issues relating to privacy violations," stated the report stated.
Earlier this year, supermarket chain Hannaford Bros. acknowledged that debit- and credit-card data had been stolen from its systems. In 2007, retail giant TJX Companies acknowledged a massive breach of its systems, estimates of which jumped to more than 100 million account records last fall.
In each of the three regions, companies listed security administration as their top need, the survey found. About three-quarters of the security practitioners polled believe that worm and virus attacks are the top threat to their systems, followed by external attackers and inside employees.
About 4 out of 10 workers surveyed agreed that continuing education is necessary for security professionals and planned to acquire additional certifications in the next year. Half of those polled planned to gain additional training in security administration, and approximately a third planned to study either application and system-development security or network security.
From Securityfocus.com
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