The State of Information Security, 2004 - Research Reports - CIO - Research - CIO

The State of Information Security, 2004 - Research Reports - CIO - Research - CIO

A survey by PricewaterhouseCoopers and CIO magazine, covering 8,000 IT execs in 62 countries found out things. As surveys do. But this one found out things like:

- 64% of companies say security spending will increase this year.
- Even though there is a significant amount being allocated for identity management, government and compliance issues are still the priority need for spending.
- North American organizations (58%) are more likely to have established appropriate use of the Internet as part of their security policy than organizations in Asia (41%), South America (37%) and Europe (36%).
- Data protection, disclosure and destruction are reported as part of organizations' security policies at (51%) of the organizations in North America versus (44%) in Asia, (40%) in Europe and (24%) South America.