The 2009 Security Mega Trends Survey helps us to better understand if certain publicized IT risks to personal and confidential data are, or should be, more or less of a concern for organizations. The results of the study are helpful to organizations struggling to understand how they should allocate resources to help ensure their information assets are safeguarded.

Based on interviews with IT experts in operations and information security, the following eight Mega Trends for this study were selected: cloud computing, virtualization, mobility and mobile devices, cyber crime, outsourcing to third parties, data breaches and the risk of identity theft, peer-to-peer file sharing and Web 2.0.