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. “That’s good news for information security. Things like virtualisation, all those projects that we had day in and day out – some of those will be delayed so they will have more time to adjust to projects,” he said. “At 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.” [...] __________________________________________________ Register now for HITBSecConf2008 - Malaysia! With a new triple-track conference featuring 4 keynote speakers and over 35 international experts, this is the largest network security event in Asia and the Middle East! http://conference.hackinthebox.org/hitbsecconf2008kl/Received on Fri Oct 10 2008 - 01:37:28 PDT
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.2.0 : Fri Oct 10 2008 - 01:41:36 PDT