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IT security sector facing major upheaval in 2009
IT security sector facing major upheaval in 2009
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http://www.itpro.co.uk/606954/it-security-sector-facing-major-upheaval-in-2009
By Asavin Wattanajantra in Madrid
IT Pro
9 Oct 2008
A leading UK security authority has said that he believes that the next
18 months will see major structural upheaval in the infosec community.
Nick Coleman, a leading independent IT security consultant who now works
with the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA), was
talking in Madrid at the ISSE 08 conference when he issued the stark
warning about the future health of the sector.
Coleman said that business failures resulting from the credit crunch
would create an overcapacity in information security skills as more
people looked for jobs. He also said that there would be real cost
issues as IT investment projects are delayed.
=E2=80=9CThat=E2=80=99s good news for information security. Things like virtualisation,
all those projects that we had day in and day out =E2=80=93 some of those will
be delayed so they will have more time to adjust to projects,=E2=80=9D he said.
=E2=80=9CAt the same time, companies will be stripping out lots of costs that
will give us even bigger challenges. [There will be] more remote working
- those kinds of things.=E2=80=9D
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