In-the-cloud security to grow in economic crisis

In Sydney this week to speak at Gartner's IT Security Summit, Webroot CTO Gerhard Eschelbeck highlighted the difficulty of managing an evolving threat landscape amid staff shortages and tightening budgets.

While e-mail security has dominated the spotlight previously, Webroot research indicates that the Web has been a greater source of threats in recent times.

The research also found that more than half of Web security decision makers feel that keeping security products up-to-date is challenging, and almost 40 percent believe their companies devote insufficient resources to Web security. "Nowadays, the threat landscape is changing in so far that the variants of malware is exploding compared to five years ago," Eschelbeck said, noting that malware variants in circulation today are five times as numerous as those five years ago.