The current market for secure information storage solutions is divided into many areas: edge-of-network, network infrastructure, dedicated hardware/software and storage-over-IP offerings. Gartner values the information security industry to have a market value of $18 bn and growing.
It is a competitive industry in which there is no theory of unification regarding platform, protocol or storage configuration. Information Security solutions are largely implemented as a reaction to the ‘probability of threat’. This explains why there are many solutions.
If enterprises implemented their information security based on the ‘implication of loss’, employees would be chained to their desks for the duration of their workday, and access to shared networks would revert to the archaic days of overnight job submission. Cybertheft is a drain on the economy, but the degree to of cost from lost informatIon cannot be fully quantified.
