It appears that productivity is quickly becoming more important than security to business leaders.

It was bound to happen, really. It’s part of the cycle that things go through. Just like you are most likely to get money for security after a major virus or hacking attack than you are 2 months afterwards.

I’m actually surprised the focus on security has lasted this long. I don’t doubt that security will continue to be an issue, but the fact of the matter is that virus, spam and spyware tools are now common-place in most enterprises (or will be within the next year).

The last big hurdle to tackle is, of course, patch management, but even that is hitting center stage. Once these issues are tackled it becomes a “not my issue” type of issue. Companies are paying support, and receiving it, and until these new systems collapse, the status quo will be just fine.

Granted it hasn’t been established quite yet, but it will, and soon. Internally our anti-spam solution is running at peak. Our anti-virus is generally fantastic (I’ll be calling the vendor to talk through the remaining issues today) and our spyware and patch management solutions will be fully developed and in production before the end of the year.

Beyond that, what is there really to do, from a global perspective, at least one which managers care about? Firewalls are in place, internal locking mechanisms are working relatively well. The biggets hole will ultimately be reporting, something that managers will only highlight once there’s an issue.

We’ll see how it goes.