Outsourcing of IT security services will increase dramatically over the next five years despite fears about turning over the keys to the company to an outside entity. IDC Canada estimates that the market for security services in Canada was $436 million in 2004. By 2009, says Joe Greene, IDC Canada
Despite the deal seeming to be on the brink of completion, Network Associates Inc. Thursday said that it is withdrawing its bid to buy out its subsidiary McAfee.com Corp. after discovering accounting irregularities that will cause it to restate its 1999 and 2000 financial results.
Havoc wrought by Internet-based computer viruses continues to worsen, a new study concludes. And the worse news is that software vendors are predicting an even darker future in which self-mutating viruses become practically undetectable and almost unstoppable.