<p>Gartner has released what 2013 holds for IT organizations and users. The predictions of the consulting focus on economic risks, opportunities and innovations that CIOs adopt to foster a new generation of highly oriented business solutions.</p><p>In the new report entitled, "Predicts 2013: Security Solutions," Gartner states that increased adoption of cloud-based computing is expected to impact the way security is consumed as well as how key government agencies will prioritize security of public cloud infrastructure.</p><p>Gartner predicts by 2015, 10 percent of overall IT security enterprise product will be delivered in the cloud focusing on messaging, Web security and remote vulnerability assessment, and cloud-based security services will generate merger and acquisition activity involving small and midsize cloud-based security specialists. As the trend will continue, Gartner expects that cloud-based security services will overtake those of traditional on-premises security equipment in next three years.</p><p>The buying behavior changes for different organizational sizes, for example large enterprise selects security as a service to reduce costs of ongoing maintenance of security tools and to simplify their security programs or provide them more flexibility. In some cases security as a servicespecifically vulnerability assessment servicesare used simply to comply with external scan requirements of PCI, says the report.</p><p><a href="http://cloudtimes.org/2012/12/14/gartner-cloud-security-predictions-for-2013/">Keep reading...</a></p>