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Budget reductions unlikely, claims VeriSign. Security spending remains steady in Asia-Pacific despite the global economic downturn, according to a new Gartner survey. A new phishing scheme leveraging the McDonald's name is part of a trend that plays on the economic downturn. The Blue Coat Systems CEO gazed into the dotcom abyss and survived. He thinks he has the measure of the downturn. Paul Fisher reports The economic downturn could give the software as a service (SaaS) model an edge over traditional security software provision, Webroot believes. Even faced with tough budget times, there is still an opportunity, says one CISO. The bitter reality of tough times can be made more sour by bad relations with the employees who can do real damage. In its annual crime report released Tuesday, McAfee warned governments that growing cybercriminal activity will have a further impact on consumer confidence. The gap between security risks and our ability to tackle them is set to rise. Ken Xie, the CEO and founder of UTM specialist Fortinet said that IT security companies must focus on innovation and engineering Sourcefire’s founder and CTO Martin Roesch speaks to SC Magazine about the open-source security vendor’s expansion into the Australian market and the company's future plans. Image spam numbers hit lowest recorded levels in 10 months, according to security experts. Ron Condon speaks to a woman who trains IT professionals to win friends and influence people, right up to the boardroom The combined weight of many marketing machines is trying to persuade us that SSL VPNs will soon replace the old methods of encrypting data, but Mike Smart believes there is still an argument for traditional IPsec VPNs Ethernet technology has continually reinvented itself over the years to satisfy user requirements. It now supports a range of speeds from 10 Mbps to 10 Gbps, and due to the open, competitive nature of the Ethernet market, prices are very competitive. Ethernet has won the local area network (LAN) battle and is today a ubiquitous technology that provides connectivity for over 97 per cent of networking devices worldwide. The victim of a hardware robbery decided to investigate things further when his business began to suffer. Justice was served as the culprits were caught and legal history was made. Neil Hare-Brown explains how UK companies are patching all but 3.9 per cent of high-risk vulnerabilities. Market analysts predict that more of us will be outsourcing the IT security function over the next few years. In our latest Roundtable discussion, Julie Jervis hears the views and advice of four infosec professionals While companies understand that they need to protect themselves and their employees against content security threats (such as the circulation of inappropriate material, litigation, spam, loss or corruption of data, viruses and malicious code), they also need to consider how email and web security can boost productivity. With recent events fresh in everyone's mind, it isn't that surprising that security has been thrust into the forefront, or that access control and authentication have become key issues.