Report: VoIP to fuel growth in security spending

Three out of four firms that invested in VoIP technologies are now in the throes of upgrading their security infrastructure, according to the latest report from the folks at In-Stat.

The idea here is that, yes, VoIP can offer new capabilities to the enterprise, but that traditional firewall architectures can add some wrinkles to deployment.

In-Stat predicts that spending on security appliance to reach $7 billion by 2009.

InformationWeek has the story here.