Many enterprise IT security budgets may be focused too heavily on protecting credit card data and customer personal information rather than safeguarding more valuable corporate secrets. For most enterprises, secrets are more valuable than custodial data. That was the conclusion of a global survey of 305 people with primary responsibility over IT security budgets, conducted by Forrester Research Inc. CISOs value company earnings and financial information the most, yet the majority of IT security spending is aimed at protecting less valuable data, according to the survey, which was commissioned by Microsoft and RSA, the security division of EMC Corp.