79 Percent of Security Managers Interviewed Will Grow Security Appliance Installations Over the Next 12 Months According to New Research From TheInfoPro.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 11, 2003

Findings from 175 Interviews with Fortune 1000 Decision Makers Representing Combined Spending of over $500 Million on Information Security Products and Services

The second Wave of TheInfoPro's (TIP) bi-annual study of the Information Security sector found that major corporations are now viewing Security as a strategic resource, and are therefore making it a spending priority. Almost half (49 percent) of the decision makers interviewed are planning to increase security spending over the next year. The study is based on 175 in-depth interviews with representatives from the likes of Citigroup, AT&T, Cargill, MasterCard and Time Warner.

Takeaways include:

-- Security Appliances continue to be hot: 79 percent of the

organizations studied will deploy them over the next 12

months. Of those currently using appliances, 47 percent will

increase their spending. Beneficiaries of this major shift

will include NetScreen, Cisco and Nokia.

-- 43 percent of security executives cite developing an

enterprise security infrastructure as their top priority,

expanding their focus from perimeter security. The move to

more centralized security management has led to increased

spending on: Integrated Security Management Consoles, Security

Event Management and Blended Threat Detection. Symantec,

Cisco, ISS, Computer Associates, netForensics, NetIQ and

Intellitactics are on the shortlist for delivering the

different types of functionality needed.

-- Over 90 percent of users cite the rapidly growing body of

regulations such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act as a key driver of

their implementation of an enterprise security infrastructure.

TIP conducted 175 hour-long interviews with security decision makers in Fortune 1000 companies. The study captures future spending plans, budgeted technology implementations for over forty pieces of features and functionality, detailed vendor ratings and rich narrative commentary on companies including Check Point, BindView, RSA, Netegrity, Microsoft, Trend Micro, Secure Computing, ArcSight and over 100 other security vendors.

"TIP's findings have become a trusted source for the industry," said Andrew Briney, CISSP and Editorial Director of Information Security magazine. "TIP studies provide hard data on end-user technology plans and their vendor relationships. The studies are an excellent source of context. In many ways the in-depth interviews are a mini case study that puts detailed narrative commentary around such topics as budgets, features, functionality and vendors."

In addition to Information Security, TIP studies the Storage, CRM, Networking, and Nanotechnology Tools markets. Over 600 IT decision makers are members of the TIPNetwork, including Merrill Lynch, BellSouth, Honeywell, P&G and Visa. To learn more about TIP's independent, objective research process where results are delivered without any analyst spin or bias visit www.theinfopro.net.

To learn more about the studies, contact Deborah Morrella at 212-418-1353 or email: [e-mail].

For a 5 minute rich media presentation with study highlights visit:

http://www.brainshark.com/theinfopro/InfoSec_W2_Preview1_GB