Cloud & Telecom Security

数月前，应该是二月份，有个帖子讲2009年的安全市场预期，中间和大潘讨论到了2009年的前景，我们俩“谨慎地”预测了一下：“赵博谨慎看多，潘总静候春天”。昨天读到安永公司的一份2008年安全市场调查报告，其中有几个数字很有趣，我把它们转帖过来：

Historically, the IT function is one of the frst to feel the pressure to reduce expenditures, and traditionally,information security has been closely linked with IT. Our survey confrms the link between IT and information security is still very strong (71% of respondents meet monthly with IT), but the pressure to reduce costs does not appear to be carrying over to the information security function. In fact, only 5% of respondents indicate they will be reducing annual expenditures for information security and 50% plan to increase their investment in information security as a percentage of total expenditures.In addition, only 33% of respondents cite adequate budget as a challenge to delivering their information security initiatives. Read more…

After Google released its new Sidewiki service yesterday, it’s very interesting to imagine what would be Google’s next step.  You know, it’s not a new service to let users share comments for specific web pages. Digg, Slashdot, Reddit, delicious, and other peers have been providing this for a few years.  From the release note, the key point of Sidewiki is “direct”, ie. users don’t need to submit to somewhere else to share their comments. Sidewiki allows users share comments “directly”. Doesn’t “directly” mean shortcut to other page sharing providers? Read more…