Study from CA Technologies Reveals Why the Application Economy Demands a New Approach to Security
February 02 2015 - 9:30AM
Business Wire
Mobility, APIs and Business Enablement Spark
New Attitudes Toward Security and Drive an Increase in
Investment
Protection is still the main driver for security, but a new
study released today reveals that organizations understand the
application economy demands a new view and approach to security.
The study, sponsored by CA Technologies (NASDAQ:CA) and titled “8
Steps to Modernize Security for the Application Economy,” shows how
mobility, APIs and an eye toward growing the business have brought
a balanced view of control and enablement to security.
“Today we need to live in a security-first world — light-years
from the days when security was an afterthought and bolted on after
a service or application was deployed,” said Amit Chatterjee,
executive vice president, CA Technologies. “With the application
economy going full-throttle in the hyper-connected world of people,
devices and expanding ambient data, businesses realize that
security goes beyond protection. The same tools that govern who and
what can access our data, also can deliver a frictionless and
positive customer experience and contribute to business growth in a
variety of ways.”
Key findings from the study show:
1. Mobility matters. Improving the
mobile customer experience was cited as a top security priority (42
percent), second only to protecting against data breach (56
percent). In addition, 49 percent of respondents say mobility has a
big or significant impact on security practices and policies with
respect to customers. We expect this number to expand as mobility,
BYOD and the Internet of Things drive an increasingly “unwired
enterprise” where perpetual connectivity adds a complexity and
security risk that must be addressed for employees, customers and
partners.
2. The desire to innovate quickly:
Success in the application economy requires businesses to innovate
and release applications more quickly, and API-assembled apps will
lead the way. To facilitate that need, 79 percent of respondents
are opening their data as APIs to accelerate mobile and web
application delivery, improve customer engagements and open new
revenue channels and opportunities. This adds new considerations to
the protection factor of security.
3. New attitudes adopted: Forty-eight
percent of respondents recognize that business enablement is an
important benefit of security and can drive growth. Seventy-eight
percent of respondents have seen or expect to see increased revenue
from new services enabled by improved security.
4. Increase in security investment: A
new view toward security and the protection and enablement it
offers has sparked an increase in security investment. According to
respondents, 25 percent of all IT spending will be devoted to
security in the next three years, up from 18 percent today.
Resources
For tips on how to advance security for today’s business
environment, read “8 Steps to Modernize Security for the
Application Economy.”
For a graphical representation of the survey results, download
this infographic.
Survey Methodology
Vanson Bourne conducted the CA Technologies-sponsored study of
1,425 senior IT and line-of-business executives (including 142 CSOs
and CISOs) at enterprise organizations with revenues of $500
million or more in financial services, healthcare, retail,
telecommunications and media/entertainment industries. The study
was conducted in 13 countries around the world: United States,
Canada, Brazil, U.K., France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Spain,
Australia, China, India and Japan.
About CA Technologies
CA Technologies (NASDAQ:CA) creates software that fuels
transformation for companies and enables them to seize the
opportunities of the application economy. Software is at the heart
of every business in every industry. From planning, to development,
to management and security, CA is working with companies worldwide
to change the way we live, transact, and communicate – across
mobile, private and public cloud, distributed and mainframe
environments. Learn more at www.ca.com.
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