Posted on Friday, February 24th, 2006 at 4:31 pm
Endpoint Authentication is the hottest technology with 29% of enterprises having either pilot deployments in place or near-term implementation plans. This tanslates to a 13% increase compared to Wave 5. Identity Management, in several forms, ranks just below Endpoint Authentication. Enterprises have been spending heavily on Identity Management and plan to continue to do so. Over 75% will spend more in 2006. Of those, nearly 30% expect to spend a minimum of $500,000, with many spending as much as $5 Million. Data Encryption has moved up to the top third on the Heat Index. Although in use by a majority of enterprises (57%), deployments are typically neither broad nor deep, with 55% planning to increase their spending on Data Protection technologies in 2006.
Enterprise Single Sign-On is much less interesting to security professionals. Deployments have stalled with about one third of the study participants reporting it in use, which is roughly the same as the Wave 4 Study released 12 months ago; furthermore, those that have the technology as “not in plan” increased by 5% compared to the Wave 5 Study released six months ago.
