Kim Addington
Chief Marketing Officer
nuBridges
First of all, Happy New Year! We enter 2009 with great hope that our troubled global economy will recover quickly and optimism that as it does, lots of markets will be stronger than ever. It’s really interesting to observe the shifts in focus and opportunity – green initiatives, alternative energy, mobility and other exciting arenas will create jobs and capital over the coming decade.
As we look specifically at nuBridges’ markets we’re encouraged by Forrester’s research findings that despite the economic downturn, both large and small enterprises plan to spend a higher percentage of their IT budgets on security in 2009. I’d like to share some highlights of this report -- “The State of Enterprise IT Security: 2008 to 2009:”
- According to Forrester analyst Jonathan Penn, security is getting a larger slice of the IT budget in 2009. “Firms plan to continue nudging up IT security budgets in 2009 to 12.6 percent (compared to 11.7 percent in 2008 and 7.2 percent in 2007) of the IT operating budget.”
- Penn cites a number of key drivers behind the spending increases. “Protecting the organization’s information assets is the top issue facing security programs,” Penn writes in the report. “Data security (90 percent) is most often cited as an ‘important’ or ‘very important’ issue for IT security organizations, followed by application security (86 percent) and business continuity/disaster recovery (84 percent). Meanwhile, areas like threat management (81 percent) and regulatory compliance (80 percent) are cited less frequently.”
- The report goes on to list the top technologies that businesses plan to adopt in 2009: data leak prevention (21 percent), application encryption platforms (19 percent) and enterprise key management solutions (19 percent).
Is your company increasing its spending on IT security in 2009?
Talk soon,
Kim
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