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• Larger vendors are leading in choice for infrastructure upgrades, points to potential M&A targets
• Forty percent (40%) of organizations are increasing security budgets in 2010
• Sixty percent (60%) of organizations already utilizing cloud-based infrastructure services or intending to do so in the next two years.

New York – February 23, 2010 – TheInfoPro, an independent research company for the IT industry, today released the results of its Information Security Study, which showed that 40 percent (40%) of enterprises are planning to increase their 2010 security budgets. …

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11 January 2010 – Data loss prevention (DLP) solutions achieved a high Heat Index position (No. 4) in our last round of interviews as a result of planned implementations intended to address the number one pain point among security professionals (data loss) at that time. While it is difficult to provide an all-inclusive answer as to whether any one particular organization could benefit from DLP implementation, such an implementation recommendation should be driven by the nature of information created by or entrusted to the enterprise in question. With many enterprises citing optimistic budget expectations for 2010, it is possible that DLP will move forward and contribute in 2010 to both compliance and best practice initiatives for safeguarding critical data within the enterprise. As first noted in Q2 2009, DLP solutions continue to fail in advancing very far from being a strong solution in plan to in use. However, while prevailing economic conditions had prevented progress given the relatively high expense of implementation and the current state of security budgets overall, this impediment appears to be abating. Although final study results are still a few weeks away, we have noted the following from data gathered to date:

• DLP is by far the infrastructure security technology that is most often in large enterprises’ plans for implementation.
• Future spending intentions weakened slightly for DLP in 2010 as 18% of respondents now expect declines, as opposed to 7% reported earlier in 2009. However, 42% still expect their spending on DLP to increase in 2010.
• Although actual use of DLP dropped to 30% of F1000 enterprises (down from 39% in the previous study), 28% have it in plan for the next 12 months, is the same pent-up demand for DLP as TheInfoPro reported six months earlier.
• While Symantec remains the most frequently cited provider in plan and in use for DLP, the vendor competitive landscape has changed slightly as McAfee has moved up to be the second most frequently cited provider of DLP solutions.

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Early findings from TheInfoPro’s biannual Security Study show security professionals’ long-term intentions regarding technology implementations and vendor selection

SAN FRANCISCO, CA, April 21, 2009 – TheInfoPro, an independent research company, announced today at RSA® Conference 2009 early results from its security study indicate that information security professionals within Fortune 1000 (F1000) and midsize enterprises (MSEs) …

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