Posted on Thursday, August 14th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
eWeek
Efforts at security in the cloud, also called Security SAAS, are currently focused on messaging security, but expect the concept to expand as the enterprise workforce relies more on mobility and applications in the cloud. Messaging security has been a big beneficiary of early security SAAS (software as a service) adoption. Analysts at IDC have predicted that worldwide spending on hosted messaging security services will reach $1.4 billion by 2011—up from just $300 million in 2006.
According to Gartner, SAAS market share will grow in several security segments over the next five years, notably in areas such as remote vulnerability assessment, which Gartner predicted will jump from 10 percent to 30 percent by 2013.
