If outsourcing security is such a good business decision, why are companies largely resisting the outsourcing of security?

As fears about outsourcing even the most critical elements of IT continue to abate, there is at least one responsibility many CIOs don`t want to give up. That one thing is security.

“I don`t know if I could ever reach a level of comfort to outsource security,” says Gregory Coan, CIO of Textainer, a $370 million global manager of marine shipping containers.