According to a GDS International survey of more than 100 leading European information security professionals, investment priorities are changing. Spending to support business growth is at an all-time high (22% of 2013 budgets, up 5% on 2012 figures). Investments to maintain and run existing systems and processes are still the lion\u2019s share, and have grown by 6% since 2011 (41% of 2013 budgets, up from 35% in 2011).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As to where the money is going, respondents said five areas were \u2018priority one or two\u2019 (where one is most important and five is least important).<\/p>\n
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Notable changes occur in spending priorities between 0-12 months (FY 2013) and 12-24 (FY 2014) months on data security, document security and social media security.<\/p>\n
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54% of respondents indicated spending on data security would be high priority in 2014 (up from 38% in 2013). 38% of respondents indicated spending on document security would be high priority in 2014 (more than double the 15% in 2013). 23% of respondents indicated spending on social media security would be high priority in 2014 (more than triple the 8% in 2013).<\/p>\n
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