Dealing with dichotomy

Our special report asks what path security VARs should take as the industry diverges

"Where there is complexity, there is opportunity."

The opening passage of the report we present to you here captures perfectly an IT security industry that finds itself at a crossroads. At one end, VARs encounter a saturated market for core commodity products, with margins under intense pressure. At the other, the proliferation of mobile devices and the dawn of cloud and hosted consumption models has created a much bigger attack surface to defend. And the scale of the threat is increasing too, with analysts pointing to a "democratisation" that has allowed sophisticated attacks to be perpetrated much more simply.

This in-depth report, sponsored by AVG, examines where the IT security channel can, and should be placing its bets in the months and years to come. Areas of focus include:

• The next wave of security, including cloud, MDM, managed services, and enhanced intelligence-gathering technologies
• What data-protection regulations and compliance requirements mean for end users, and the IT security providers that serve them
• Why and how the security market has become "dichotomous" - and which course resellers should choose to steer
• How the threat landscape is likely to evolve

To download this exclusive in-depth report - completely free of charge - simply click here.