Posted on Wednesday, August 29th, 2007 at 12:49 pm
Not that long ago, “database security” was almost an oxymoron, but today, demanding auditors and the drumbeat of customer information breaches are forcing corporations to pay serious attention to who has access to sensitive data and what their doing with it.
That’s good news for security managers, who are now getting boardroom attention, and database security vendors, who are seeing increasing interest in this still small (generally estimated at less than US$100 million for third-party products), but growing market.
“Many of the companies in this space have been growing 100 percent a year for a couple of years,” said Andrew Jaquith, a senior analyst at the Yankee Group. “They’ll probably double again in 2007. It’s a big area in funding priorities
