This IDC study examines the adoption trends of security solutions — software, appliance, and managed service — among organizations in Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) or APEJ region. It highlights the top concerns of organizations when purchasing IT security–related technologies. It also demonstrates the key drivers behind the purchase and adoption of these solutions by country perspective and by industry perspective. Overall, IT security spending across organizations in different countries and industries will continue to increase or at least remain the same from 2007 to 2008.

"Organizations with a well in place IT systems and network infrastructures are aware of the importance of security to ensure business operation continuity and to meet the needs of internal stakeholders, partners, and customers. When evaluating security technologies, organizations should evaluate their internal business requirements and take a more holistic framework approach instead of purely implementing event-driven or tactic-basis point products to build their security architecture," says Judy Wu, research manager, Infrastructure Software Research, IDC Asia/Pacific.