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April 4, 2008

Client Security Purchases Miss The Mark

Enterprise Security Technology Adoption Does Not Protect Against Data Loss

by Natalie Lambert

with Christine E. Atwood, Galen Schreck, Walid Saleh

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Executive Summary

Security operations managers seem to be stuck in the past — in a time when viruses and worms dominated the security threatscape. Think back over 2007 — even 2006 — can you think of any widespread piece of malicious code that truly disrupted business? Instead, 2007 showed a constant parade of CNN headlines outing the latest data security breach. So, why the focus on malicious code? Because the security operations group is handcuffed by problems they can tactically solve. Implementing personal firewalls and patch management have a proven business case — the threats are real, and the products work. Because the threat seems more remote, making a business case for encryption and information leak prevention is a much harder sell. And unfortunately, we have yet to speak to an enterprise that was able to justify the cost of full disk encryption or client-side information leak prevention without having a breach first.

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