Microsoft spending on security R&D rivals Symantec

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The short version?

 

"Microsoft is spending more than $1 billion on security research and development. Will that funding mean enterprises will curtail spending with independent security vendors?"

 

The longer version with graphs and many techie details is in the full article link below the excerpt.

 

Excerpt:

 

"Microsoft's spending on security research and development is on par with Symantec and highlights how the company has the potential to poach additional wallet share.

 

In a blog post highlighting Microsoft's security plans, the software giant said that it spends more than $1 billion a year on security research and development. To put that in context, that sum represents a bit more than 1 percent of Microsoft's annual sales and about 8.33 percent of what the company spent on research and development in fiscal 2015. Microsoft spends about 13 percent of its annual sales on R&D.

 

As a proxy, I compared Symantec's R&D spending. Symantec spent $1.14 billion on R&D and it's safe to assume most of that money went toward security in some form. Both Microsoft and Symantec man intelligence networks and monitor threats. Symantec's R&D spending amounted to 18 percent of annual sales.

 

What remains to be seen is whether Microsoft can poach security revenue or garner more wallet share in the enterprise. For Microsoft, a doormat on security years ago, the spending on protecting data is the cost of doing business. But as security is increasingly built into products and the cloud from the likes of Microsoft and Google you have to wonder what happens to independent vendors over time.

 

Here's where CIOs are placing their budget bets for 2016, according to ZDNet sister site Tech Pro Research."

 

The rest in detail and with pictures and graphs is here: http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-spending-on-security-r-d-rivals-symantec/?tag=nl.e566&s_cid=e566&ttag=e566&ftag=TRE49e8aa0