<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV><FONT face="verdana, helvetica, sans-serif">Demand for <SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1243609170_0>information security staff</SPAN> declined noticeably in the second half of 2008. Recruitment freezes and elongated recruitment sign off </FONT><FONT face="verdana, helvetica, sans-serif">procedures are becoming more common and unemployment amongst security practitioners is increasing. However, information security extends into </FONT><FONT face="verdana, helvetica, sans-serif">all areas of the economy, both in the private and <SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1243609170_1 style="BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed">public sectors</SPAN>, and is not substantially dependent on financial services. Demand is therefore </FONT><FONT face="verdana, helvetica, sans-serif">potentially broadly based.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="verdana, helvetica, sans-serif">Looking ahead, although there is unlikely to be any upturn in the market in the near term and redundancies and unemployment are likely to track </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="verdana, helvetica, sans-serif">developments in the wider economy, security departments now have a better defined role than previously and information security is not the target </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="verdana, helvetica, sans-serif">for cost savings that it once was. </FONT></DIV>
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