Stories by: Eric Ogren

The Yankee Group expects security budgets to increase in 2004. But companies will no longer spend for security's sake. The enterprise model for security decision-making has changed to include line-of-business managers.

The trusted security model of network intrusion-detection systems, triggering alarms for IT action, has become overwhelmed, says the Yankee Group.

Web applications running on open architectures have become breeding grounds for security vulnerabilities, says the Yankee group. As a result, the firm predicts that the Web application security market will be the hottest sector in Internet security in 2003.

A new market segment of security software, called Host Intrusion Prevention (HIP), has risen to protect network assets against damage from unknown attacks

Yankee Group says the commercial costs of spam are increasing with the growth in electronic mail, instant messaging and costly wireless bandwidth. It's time for CSOs to fight back.

The Yankee Group says Web application gateways (WAGs) offer better protection against attacks on Web servers than intrusion detection systems, and that makes them worth a look.