• Indian organizations had to compete globally and the implications were understood by externally facing organizations in the ITeS, banking and pharma space. They adopted compliance and certification in the security space aligning themselves closely with the BS7799 standard as well as complying to SAS70, SOX and HIPAA. The Indian Government played its part with the formation of CERT and this had an impact on NIC and several government organizations. 18 Critical infrastructure auditors were identified and empanelled.

• The integrated security appliances, which offer multiple functionalities (FW/VPN, AV, IPS, Content Filtering and even anti-spyware) on a single platform, gain prominence. These solutions have been seeing good adoption with the SMB market and also branch offices of large organizations with their good value for money and easy manageability. Large organizations tend to go for high-end point technology products for their core networks and are looking for integrated/central management of these different devices for combined intelligence and increased efficiency and collaboration between these devices against security threats.

• Instances of cybercrime and cyber fraud became widespread with more Indian enterprises conducting business online and with business critical information being made accessible online. Spyware and phishing emerged as two of the largest threats to corporate computing amongst the enterprises. Phishing emerged as Internet's biggest identity theft scam. Over the last one year, there has been a sharp increase in phishing attacks on Indian enterprises. Spyware has been used to launch corporate espionage, wherein unauthorized business-critical information has been acquired and sold to rivals. Using a single password for all applications on a network exposes an organization to greater risk of  spyware attacks.

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