"Organisations need to have a security strategy and look into ways to minimising their exposure and loss. They should have a clear picture of what kind of information they process and who have the access to that information. Stakeholders could anticipate the value impact and how information might be 'lost'," said Lam.

With virtualisation and cloud computing catching on among organisations, IDC warned that the next battle field are these new trends that emphasise the use of networks.

"IDC predicts cloud computing and virtualisation technology to be the long-term development directions for optimising management overheads in the security software market. Automation and centralised management is the 'paradise' that organisations are looking for," IDC stated.

There are solutions, of course, such as cloud-based security software and similar solutions for the virtualised environment.