Top 10 Security Technologies

This top ten list may not appear on Letterman's Late Night Show but it's interesting for the enterprise computer environment - the ten most popular security technologies have been identified in Deloitte's 6th Annual Global Security Survey, as referenced by Baseline magazine:

1. Anti-virus software
2. Firewalls
3. Spam filtering
4. Virtual Private Networks - VPN
5. Web content filtering/monitoring
6. Intrusion Detection Systems - IDS
7. Anti-spyware software
8. Directory servers
9. Encryption
10. Intrusion Prevention Systems - IPS

In sum, no big surprises on the tally and the four are predicable. 96 % of the organizations in the survey have anti-virus software and firewalling remains a necessity but it's alone not enough. Spam filtering has become necessary in order to keep the junk-mail at bay and VPNs are used to connect networks and allow employees and others access to the corporate network.