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Understanding the State of Endpoint Security

Understanding the State of Endpoint Security What You Need to Know About the State of Endpoint SecurityBy Ericka Chickowski No Title The Ponemon Institute recently conducted a study on behalf of Lumension to take the pulse of decision makers from both IT security and IT operations groups about endpoint management and security. Unsurprisingly, Ponemon found […]

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Ericka Chickowski

Nov 20, 2009

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Understanding the State of Endpoint Security

What You Need to Know About the State of Endpoint SecurityBy Ericka Chickowski

No Title

The Ponemon Institute recently conducted a study on behalf of Lumension to take the pulse of decision makers from both IT security and IT operations groups about endpoint management and security. Unsurprisingly, Ponemon found among the key findings that endpoint management systems still remain too complex and costly for organizations and IT ops and security still don’t quite see eye-to-eye when it comes to keeping endpoints both safe and reliable. The study surveyed more than 3,000 participants from five countries, with a rough half-and-half ratio between ops and security players.

Security Budgets Hold

More than 53% of participants reported that their IT security budget will likely stay the same in 2010.

Endpoint Disruptors

Among key technologies that affect the manageability and security of endpoints, the one most likely to see increased use in 2010 was cloud computing, with 69% of participants predicting a boost.

Endpoint Disruptors

Around 68% of those surveyed believed they would increase use of virtualization in 2010.

Endpoint Disruptors

Another 65% said they would bump up use of Web 2.0 next year.

Endpoint Management Complexities

On average, organizations have 3.7 software agents installed on each endpoint to perform management, security or other operations tasks.

Endpoint Management Complexities

The average number of distinct software management consoles for endpoint operations tallies up to 3.9.

Personal Devices, No Policies

Approximately 40% of respondents reported that employees can connect their own devices to enterprise networks, yet only 26% have a policy that permits those employees to do so.