Survey Objective and Methodology Overview Security Decisions Rise to Business Leaders: Prepare Your Sellers for an Executive-Level Sale Developing and Documenting Security Policy Are Becoming the Norm, Instead of the Exception Almost Two-Thirds of SMBs Project Business Growth, Yet Only a Third of 2008 Security Budgets Increased More Than a Third of Respondents Chose Data Security/Privacy as the Chief Factor Driving IT Security Spending Fragmented Risk Management Organizational Relationships More Than Half of SMB IT Spending Goes to Traditional Products, but SaaS Is a Factor at the E-Mail Gateway Hardware and Software Are the Leading Areas for Spending Increase Security as a Service: An Emerging SMB Opportunity After Network and Endpoint Security Are Budgeted, Scant Money Remains SMBs Prefer to Purchase From One Vendor When Possible Microsoft Has Gotten Traction With "Good Enough" Security SMB Respondents Usually Think of Their Endpoint Security Providers as Primary Vendors Open-Source Security Adoption Still Limited Among SMBs, but Expect an Upswing Next Year |
