Security won’t see major cuts, but will see the usual cost-containment pressure. Anything not related to a mandated compliance requirement, obvious threat prevention or clear cost-cutting/reduced TCO will likely be put off until next year. The independent database security market will start to collapse and we’ll see multiple low-value acquisitions. Data Loss Prevention will finally go early mainstream due to the push from the big vendors. Content discovery will drive more deals than network monitoring, and provide more value to most users.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2123474/rich-mogull–7-infosec-trends-for-2009.html