{"id":2210,"date":"2008-09-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/09\/06\/it-security-devours-10-of-operating-budgets\/"},"modified":"2021-12-30T11:40:53","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T11:40:53","slug":"it-security-devours-10-of-operating-budgets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/09\/06\/it-security-devours-10-of-operating-budgets\/","title":{"rendered":"IT security devours 10% of operating budgets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IT security budgets are consuming 10% of operating budgets and rising amidst growing concern over data breaches and an increasing need to protect sensitive data, according to Forrester Research.  In a survey of 1,255 security decision-makers at North American companies, 21% expect to increase IT security spending in 2009, compared with 6% who expect security spending to decrease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those are impressive numbers in this economy, analyst Khalid Kark said in a keynote during Forrester&#8217;s Security Forum in Boston.<\/p>\n<p>An organisation-wide focus on security also brings higher expectations, and sometimes conflicting expectations from the various departments in a business.  Security has been the top priority for CIOs in Forrester surveys for four straight years, and 30% of security decision-makers surveyed report having a &#8220;dotted-line relationship&#8221; with the board or CEO.<\/p>\n<p>Kark attributes this change in attitude partly to data breaches and resulting media coverage and lawsuits that focus public scrutiny on information security.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.computerworlduk.com\/management\/security\/data-control\/news\/index.cfm?newsid=10842<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4697,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210\/revisions\/4697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}