Research Brief: 2011 Security Spending Trends

ESG research indicates that most midmarket and enterprise organizations will increase security spending in 2011. While spending in traditional areas like network security, desktop security, and web/messaging security will remain dominant, ESG also sees pockets of spending for mobile security, identity and access management, and information assurance. Many organizations want to add security staff within IT, but will likely find a shortage of available talent, opening the market for managed security services. Beyond these mainstream areas, creative vendors will find opportunities in server virtualization security, risk management, and security automation.