Gartner Says IT Security Spend to Grow, Even as IT Budgets are Cut
Proofpoint will be exhibiting at Gartner's Information Security Summit next week (if you're there, come see us in the Solutions Showcase, booth #40) and this preview article from Dark Reading, "Security Poised to Grab Bigger Piece of the IT Pie, Gartner Says," caught my eye.
In the article, Gartner security analyst Adam Hills is quoted as saying that:
"IT spending in 2009 is basically flat, with some companies making cuts, but we're seeing security spending increase slightly. If both of those hold true throughout the year, then it's clear that security spending will end up comprising a larger portion of the total IT budget [than in 2008]."
Software-as-a-Service spending is driving some of this growth. Hills notes that large capital investments are being put on hold as enterprises move more toward outsourcing and third-party security services. According to Hills, 30% of companies say they are spending at least 10% of their security budgets on SaaS offerings.
Hills says that security functions that are often considered "commodity" -- including the areas where Proofpoint plays including email security, anti-spam and anti-virus -- are "among the most likely functions to be outsourced or converted to SaaS."
This certainly fits what we're seeing in our business, as both new and existing customers adopt our SaaS email security solutions from the Proofpoint on Demand family -- solutions like Proofpoint ENTERPRISE, Proofpoint SHIELD and Proofpoint ARCHIVE.
You can read the entire article here:
And if you're interested in better understanding the cost savings associated with SaaS, you'll want to check out these Proofpoint and Osterman Research whitepapers that explore how SaaS email security and SaaS email archiving can reduce costs without sacrificing security. See:
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