IT Managers Turn to Security Outsourcing as Threats Rise

摘要

IT managers sometimes worry that IT security is too important to a company's health and well being to turn over to a third-party service provider, an unknown outsider unfamiliar with the organization's inner workings. But outsourcing at least a portion of an organization's IT security operations increasingly makes sense in our online real-time malware-infested business environment.rnSecurity threats are expanding at every level. The Conficker worm made evident the insidious menace represented by botnets. Spam may not be growing at its previous torrid pace, but still claims a very high percentage of overall email traffic - 97%, according to Microsoft's most recent survey. Data security is a particular concern: The number of data breaches last year increased 47% from the year earlier, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center. Even information warfare and cybersabotage, so much science fiction fodder just a few years ago, seem like very real possibilities these days.