Last year, Morgan Stanley decided to outsource functions such as firewall management and network vulnerability assessment to a managed security service provider. According to Jaikumar Vijayan's 3/8/05 Computerworld article, Lance Braunstein, Morgan Stanley's executive director of infrastructure planning, said that "Outsourcing to a third party also allows Morgan Stanley to do more 'proactive discovery of vulnerabilities.'"
http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,100266,00.html
In another Computerworld Premier 100 Q&A, Patrick Thibodeau describes how McKesson's Cheryl Smith thinks that the U.S. can provide an alternative to offshore outsourcing.
http://www.computerworld.com/managementtopics/outsourcing/story/0,10801,100247,00.html
