Fortinet announced the results of a survey of computer security was conducted on 350 IT professionals in small and medium-sized and large companies across Asia. The survey asked the company responsible for making decisions in India, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and safety strategies and priorities in the midst of a rapidly changing landscape.

Respondents ranked Indians breadth of coverage as a first priority (63 percent), followed by profitability (41 percent). There are several guides for strategic changes such as cloud computing (36 percent named him as the most important engine), the virtualization (16 percent), the emergence of sophisticated threats and attacks (15 percent), led by users ( 14 percent) and mobility (11 percent).

According to the rapidly changing trends, many organizations evaluate the safety strategy often. 80 percent of respondents in India have carried out a comprehensive reassessment of its strategy for information security during the past 12 months.

The survey revealed that about 85 percent of respondents worried about the ability of companies to ensure corporate data in this new user-led environment, where individual users to determine the preferred practices and technologies in use. Organizations South Korea and India are the most concerned (both 94 percent). Japan is less anxious at 63 percent.

94 percent of respondents said they have a defined strategy for mobile security. Hong Kong and Taiwan are more advanced in this field, both at 98 percent, followed by India at 96 percent. However, the results indicate that most companies are unsure about whether or not they have the means to secure mobile devices: 67 percent of respondents say that only allows the use of corporate mobile security policies that can be applied directly. Twenty-six percent of the liability of companies for securing personal mobile terminals directly with the users / owners of these devices.

Wireless networks are more vulnerable (59 percent) segments of the infrastructure in terms of security. As for the degree of risk, wireless networks also have the highest score in front of the end points (second place) and databases (the third).

Research revealed that 42 percent of respondents use or plan to use a firewall to control the functions of the application. Specialized Web applications and XML firewalls also approved, with 45 percent of the total sample and the use or intend to use this technology. Singapore had the highest rate of adoption of next-generation firewall with 52 percent of the sample with this technology. India and South Korea are close behind, tied at 48 percent. China and Taiwan are the biggest users of web applications / XML firewall, with 61 percent and 48 percent of the samples, respectively. India ranks third with 44 percent.

71 percent of respondents have established the safety features to benefit from increased security, simplified management and lower costs, and 90 percent of them said he would continue the consolidation of security within the next 12 months.