In the late 1990s, we all predicted big things around managed services. As we close 2007, we are all predicting big things for Software as a Service (SaaS). What's old is new again but this time we may be right.
Case in point, managed security. A few years ago, enterprise security professionals were too proud and too paranoid to even think about outsourcing security management. As Bob Dylan sang, "the times, they are a changin'." According to a recent ESG Research survey 50 percent of large organizations (i.e. more than 1,000 employees) are either "interested" or "very interested" in outsourcing some portion of their security management tasks.
