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Security Online provides a broad overview of the topic of internet security, presenting statistical information from a wide range of authoritative research, governmental and industry sources. The report provides the data that businesses need to build effective internet security management systems, better understand the security concerns of customers and clients, benchmark practices against other firms and identify future business trends.

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eMarketer, the world's leading provider of internet statistics, delivers the business intelligenceyou need at prices you can afford. Our reports cover every aspect of e-business and theinternet, combining original analysis with aggregated numbers from leading industryresearch sources. You’ll find valuable information and industry insight in a straightforward,easy-to-read format - you’ll never have to dig to get the vital statistics you need.

The eMarketer Methodology

The key to approaching quantitative truth - particularly when examining the internetmarketplace - is to consider data from as many reputable sources as possible. No onehas all the answers. But taken together, multiple sources, coupled with healthy dosesof common sense and business intelligence, create a reasonably accurate picture.

Process

eMarketer's team of professional researchers and librarians aggregate all internet and e-businessrelated data from a wide variety of sources. They evaluate, filter, index andorganize the data. Then, eMarketer's analysts contextualize the data and provide conciseoriginal analysis. Finally, the comparative source data along with our own analysis,estimates, and projections is presented. As a result, each set of findings reflects thecollected wisdom of numerous research firms and industry analysts.The benefits to our readers are threefold: