Network security to climb several notches in 2009

By Kang Eu Ween, Enterprise Solutions Director Asia Pacific, Juniper Networks | Dec 24, 2008

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Kang Eu Ween, Enterprise Solutions Director Asia Pacific, Juniper Networks

2009 is expected to be filled with uncertainties. And against this backdrop of economic uncertainties, environmental pressures and tighter budgets, technologies and trends that help company lower their costs, like virtualization and consolidation, will still be deployed.

Investments in Network and Internet Security will continue as the impact on the business can be devastating to a company in these times should there be a breach especially since security threats have been reported to have increased in recent times.

In addition, some organizations will supplement that with identity management and access control to tighten their information security.

Consolidation of data centers, virtualization, and possibly, adoption of cloud computing and unified communications,will mean placing heavy demands on security solutions to deliver performance and scalability and this is where technologies like is able to address.

Consolidation and virtualization will extend to security solutions as well in an effort to reduce security appliance sprawl besides reducing costs in power and cooling in the data center.

Finally,the recent events that unfolded in Mumbai and Bangkok will raise the focus on not just security and connectivity, but continued access to information and data. In this aspect, ICE (In-Case of Emergency) capabilities, disaster recovery and business continuity will be top of minds with many CIOs.

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