Aberdeen’s analysis confirms the prevailing wisdom that endpoint security based on anti-virus software alone is not enough, particularly given the technology mega-trends (e.g., social, mobile, cloud) that are dramatically transforming our IT computing infrastructure, and the corresponding changes in the security threat landscape.

Further to this, the report concludes that anti-virus solutions such as Microsoft’s Forefront Endpoint Protection may mislead some organisations to make an erroneous conclusion – i.e., that "free A/V" is "good enough for me" however it is shown that not investing in additional endpoint security solutions is a false economy – in reality, the anti-virus-only