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Top Outsourced Security Functions

December 17th, 2006 › Resources › admin ›

As mentioned in my previous posts, outsourcing security is not a sign of desperation. There are many companies which outsources different security functions.

If you want to know what top security functions are commonly outsourced, I bring you the list. The list was derived from the results of the survey done by Information Week/Accenture Global Information Security.

Top Security Functions:
Managed Firewall – 29%
Managed Intrusion Detection – 25%
Vulnerability Assessment – 21%
Messaging Protection – 18%
Computer incident and response – 17%
Disaster Recovery Management – 17%
Security Strategy – 15%
Vulnerability management – 15%
Security governance – 11%
Asset and configuration management – 11%
End device security – 11%

I'm sure that from this list, you would have an idea of your own outsourced security functions.