Burton Group, an exhibitor at InterOp in Las Vegas has released a report highlighting the top IT security issues for enterprise organizations to watch.

The threat environment is much more "sinister" according to Burton in which the majority of externally originated attacks are not just criminal in nature, but targeted and intentional.

"Enterprises are not only under pressure from cybercrime and insider abuse, but are facing increasing and evolving compliance demands -- highlighting the importance of establishing effective and measurable security programs," says Research Director Dan Blum.

The report also points out that the security software market is going through consolidation and change, as major vendors increase R&D, integration and acquisition efforts. Large platform vendors such as Microsoft, Cisco, Novell, Oracle and EMC are entering the market with their own offerings, even as traditional software security specialists such as CA, Checkpoint, IBM, McAfee, RSA and Symantec step up their efforts.

SOA, perimeter security devices and zoned network architectures and identity are all highlighted.

With so much to consider, Blum emphasizes that security technologies must be deployed in accordance with a well-thought information security architecture. "Enterprise technologists must look beyond the confusion to build an effective security control layer and to construct a comprehensive information security architecture."

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