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Businesses Spend 20% of IT Budgets on Security
Stony Stevenson writes "Security accounted for 20 percent of technology spending last year and it's expected to rise, according to a report released Tuesday. The Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA) surveyed 1,070 organisations and found that on average, they spent one-fifth of their technology budgets on security-related spending in 2006. That's up from the 15 percent of IT budgets spent on security in 2005, and the 12 percent spent in 2004."
Security is a subset of IT, and IT as a whole is not a profit-center ...
Wow. That is so incredibly absofuckinglutely wrong I almost didn't post a reply.
Welcome to Earth post digital computers. Where have you been for the past almost-a-century?
Information technology is a source of efficiency and innovation. Both of those drive profits. IT doesn't come without risks, however. Mitigating those risks is IT security.
IT security isn't really part of IT, even though it's usually placed in the same department of the org chart and in the same budget. It is a part of the insurance package every business owns.
obviously no deficiencies vs. no obvious deficiencies
Niggers sux.