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September 14, 2007 6:11 AM PDT
Gartner: Antivirus is biggest security expense
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Antivirus software will account for more than 50 percent of the total security software revenue market in 2007, according to the calculations by analyst Gartner.
Organizations are getting more sophisticated in the way they choose security products, and technical evaluations are now common practice, the analyst firm said. Customers also want to deal with a smaller number of vendors that can supply products that work well together.
Gartner principal research analyst Ruggero Contu said that traditionally, the security software market has been dominated by "best-of-needs" vendors, but the market is now starting to see a gradual consolidation around fewer players.
However, Contu added that security is becoming more complex and difficult for a single vendor to handle. "Customers require products that integrate with their security architecture rather than disconnected-point solutions," he said in a statement.
Steve Ranger of Silicon.com reported from London.
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It's as though articles with multiple sources are being replaced with quickie blog entries.
Technical support is available for questions and interpretations of the test results, that only you receive.
Just about every 12 year-old kid with an attitude either writes their own trojans, or downloads a trojan kit with scripts in it to create their own with no knowledge of how a trojan works.
Employees should have limited account access, unless they cannot do their job functions without administrator access, and then they need to be monitored and need a good firewall and AV software to protect them from getting infected.
As always back up data to a network drive that is tape backed up daily. Then keep Ghost images of good system OS images in case you need to repair a workstation quickly to the last known good Ghost image.