During the financial crisis many offshore software development companies cut their investments in highly advanced security systems. Now that the global economy is growing again, research shows that in the field of IT outsourcing many offshore software development companies are currently boosting their security systems according to the latest market standards.

Research by PricewaterhouseCoopers reveals that after the global economy recovered from the major crisis, software developers start to invest in information security spending again. The increase in security investments is amongst due to the fact that attacks of technical nature are getting more and more sophisticated and advanced.

Resulting from this security systems have to be not only updated along but one step ahead of the hackers. According to the study offshore software development service vendors are increasingly addressing the issue of data security on a strategic level.

The field of security is maturing and so are the strategies of organization to optimize their protection systems. Risk management is only one hot buzzword in this regard. Industry experts highly welcome this trend towards better data security and highlight the value for clients.

Especially the trend of cloud-sourcing poses an extra challenge to IT vendors who have to make informed decisions on open or private cloud; and generally on how to secure data in open source-based systems.

Additional to new service trends and more advanced technologies, multiple scandals in the past about data theft even in well-known corporations such as Facebook, challenge offshore software development companies to polish their reputation with flawless security protection of their client.