In the SearchSecurity Asia Information Security Survey at the beginning of 2010, we asked IT and information security professionals from the region questions ranging from security and risk management issues they are currently dealing with, to a comparison of their IT budgets in 2009 and 2010 and their organizations’ information security strategy, to their greatest fears and needs.

Symantec’s 2010 State of Enterprise Security study reveals that organizations are intent to double their efforts at shoring up their security infrastructure, considering the increasing security breaches, and initiatives such as ‘Cloud Computing’ that are viewed as being more problematic from a security standpoint.

Internet architecture and operations community facing a 'perfect storm' of challenges, according to Arbor Networks' fifth annual infrastructure security report.

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Verizon Business has issued its 2009 supplemental data breach report profiling the 15 most common attacks. ‘Anatomy of a Data Breach’ sheds new light on how and why these attacks occur.

The absence of a comprehensive information management and infrastructure strategy creates a long list of challenges for the business. Most damaging is that companies are at risk of introducing inefficiencies and waste into the organization.

The need for financial fraud and credit risk management is on the increase. The global market for financial crime risk management technology is projected to grow to $3.75 billion by 2012, according to a recent financial crime risk management report.

The critical need to increase utilization of servers and storage through virtualization in data centers has caused data center managers to re-evaluate disaster recovery plans, as well as increased their workloads and concerns.

The GAO report finds that data leakage is a primary weakness among federal agencies in the US.

Symantec research reveals that IT spending on disaster recovery (DR) is on the rise, yet organizations are vulnerable when it comes to DR testing and virtual environments. The rising DR pressures are caused by soaring downtime costs and more stringent IT service level requirements to mitigate business risks.