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August 22, 2015 Leave a commentCloud Computing, Industry, OutsourcingBy Roger Halbheer

I am guilty as charged: There was a time, where I was convinced that companies will never ever outsource their security functions. It seems that I was wrong. It even seems that for some companies the country, where the service is really delivered starts to get less relevant as long as quality fits. And the thought is really relevant: If there is a professional company offering security services, they might not necessarily become less expensive but better.

If you read this article Outsourcing IT security continues to grow, study finds you will find an interesting conclusion:

Outsourcing of disaster recovery and desktop support are the IT functions with the greatest potential for successfully reducing costs, and the outsourcing of web/e-commerce operations and IT security are the functions found to have the greatest potential for improving service, the study found.

Maybe new business opportunities?

Roger

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About the author

Roger Halbheer

Roger Halbheer is an Executive Security Advisor at Microsoft in EMEA acting as a trusted advisor to CxO. Before that he was a Managing Director at Accenture's Financial Services. Before joining Accenture, he was the Chief Security Officer of Swisscom (Switzerland's largest telecom provider) and the global Chief Security Advisor for Microsoft.