DOWN TO THE BASICS
It's been difficult enough getting business support when internet security has been viewed like insurance: a vague form of protection for which particular investments can never quite be directly justified. Today though, the issues of privacy breaches, corporate espionage, compliance, and protection make internet security more relevant to the general puplic and business than ever. Ironically, many internet security professionals still lack the skills and tools to talk in business terms and get consumers from across the board to understand the value of their internet security programs and contribute to them. Here we design baseline systems to provide a scope of security programs and guidance on how to define and organize your efforts.

SIMPLE CORE BEST PRACTICES
As internet security solidifies its role and strives to be a valuable business player, the security organization's structure and responsibilities are evolving in parallel. This maturation process is seeing internet security transform into a risk-driven discipline €" and shifting from technology oriented endeavors to ones where technology plays a supporting role to processes and people.
Security is an imprecise science, however: It involves developing a successful partnership with business and your users, finding what projects and approaches will reap the biggest rewards, and €" let's not forget €" sorting through vendor hype to set proper expectations and deliver on promises. Our best practices derive from both the successful and struggling to provide insight and actionable advice to help you minimize the time that you spend wrestling with these issues.
Internet security solutions are no longer the sole domain of the largest organizations. More than one third of enterprises have been deploying security tools since the middle of 2008, and those that have invested the time and effort in the tools are reaping the benefits, streamlining existing processes, and implementing active monitoring controls where there were none previously. Successful organizations get the best benefit from their implementations when they establish their immediate needs clearly, but have a clear vision for what they want to deliver in the future.

TRENDs
A key tool for internet security professionals is understanding where you are in relation to the basic concerns of their customers. Our survey-driven trends research enables you to benchmark your practices against your peers in the areas of budgets, organizational structure, planned technology purchases, and the security policies and procedures that they're rolling out. Research helps you understand where market adoption is today and also peers into the future, helping you determine your strategic security priorities for this year and beyond.

VENDOR AND PRODUCT COMPARISONS
It's not just what you know €" it's who you know. To succeed, security chiefs must select the right partners to help them solve their security problems. Through evaluations and market overview research, you can find the right security product vendors and service providers for you and your organization.
In addition, consumers want to have created a number of Vendor Product Packages of interest to security and risk clients: Which cover the following topics: client security suites; email security; penetration testing tools; security awareness and training; security information management; and Web filtering technologies.