Abstract
This document provides in-depth top 10 predictions for the global Western
European security market in 2008. "Last December 2006, we published 10
predictions for 2007. Six were realistic and more or less took place in the
last 12 months," said Eric Domage, Western Europe Security Software and
Services research manager. "Security services rose, consolidation took place,
storage and security converged, UTM gained core, internal threats were
monitored, and IAM projects were on everyone' s mind. We over-judged Microsoft' s
capacity to enter the security market and under-judged vulnerability progress
at the application level."
For 2008, IDC believes we will still be monitoring the shift from software to
service as this will take a decade to reach the next step. But security will
also gain the public space, due to highly visible IT incidents in 2007, such as
the HMRC "datagate" and the Nationwide fine. The security industry is facing an
important challenge: more than securing and defending assets, security tools
and techniques must now generate trust and confidence in the eworld. This is an
economic and political challenge. Public and political involvement through
regulation could support such a challenge in 2008.
"For sure, being ' just' an engineer will not be enough in 2008," said Domage.
Public opinion management inside IT security policies means the return to
basics for security solutions. Encryption and backup, strong authentication,
and malware mitigation will return to center stage, providing experience and
robustness.
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