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Rich Mogull: 7 Infosec Trends for 2009

Shrinking budgets, the collapse of the database security market, DLP going mainstream - the former Gartner pundit places his bets for the coming year. (Part of the What Happens Next security predictions series.)

By Rich Mogull

In summary, anything not related to obvious threat prevention, compliance or cost cutting will really struggle this year. We'll still see innovation, but in terms of what security pros do every day it will be very much like 2008, with yet more budget pressure. The one area that could move faster is Web application security, since that will continue to transition from a quiet threat (the thing that doesn't interfere with the average employee getting their job done) to a vocal threat.

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