451 Group Report on ERM and Liquid Machines

The past 12 months have driven the security industry to a critical inflection point. In the face of record-high cost and complexity paired with capex-frozen budgets and a down economy, nearly every enterprise is seeking simplification. There are simply too many point products, too many vendors, too many threats and too many compliance frameworks to possibly keep up. As these organizations seek to simplify, will they do so responsibly? Security in 2010 will be defined largely by three things: compliance, opex consumption and cloud.