IT Security: By the Numbers
Security is the hottest thing in IT these days, at least to respondents of some surveys released the past couple of days. Here's a summary of them.
- 43 percent of 1,400 CIOs from enterprises employing at least 100 workers say they'll invest in IT security over the next 12 months, according to a survey conducted by the employment firm Robert Half Technology. That was more than any other category; virtualization ranked No. 2, at 28 percent.
- 64 percent of respondents say that while application security is important to them, they are struggling to meet the challenge on existing budgets, according to a survey conducted by Forrester Research for risk management software vendor Veracode.
- 62 percent of organizations have experienced a security breach in the past 12 months due to exploitation of vulnerabilities in their critical software applications, states the Forrester/Veracode survey of 200 businesses in the United States and Britain.
- 5 million-plus American consumers lost money in phishing attacks in the 12 months ending last September, a nearly 40 percent increase from a year earlier, IT advisor Gartner reported of its survey 3,985 U.S. online adults. The average loss was $351, down 60 percent from a year earlier.
- 55 percent - that's the projected increase European enterprises will spend on information security this year over what they did in 2008, according to a survey of large European organizations by Infosecurity Europe, which sponsors major IT security trade shows.
