Vanson Bourne Infographic: IT Security
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The document discusses a survey indicating a significant increase in IT security expenditure over the past three years, with 65% of enterprises spending more than 7.77% of their IT budgets on security. It highlights that heightened awareness of security threats correlates with increased spending and concerns, particularly regarding employees' attitudes and usage of personal devices and cloud storage. Additionally, many enterprises express low confidence in their protection measures against various threats, with particular vulnerability to employee-related risks.
Vanson Bourne Infographic: IT Security
- 1. WHAT PRICE IT SECURITY? AT A GLANCE SECURITY EXPENDITURE 65% say spend on IT security has increased in last 3 years. 65% 7.77% of IT budget is dedicated to security 30% Less than 5% = 30% 5%-10% = 41% More than 10% = 29% % 7.77 29% And this is a common picture across sector and scale of enterprise The average increase in spend is 27%. 41% 27% AWARENESS OF SECURITY THREATS Heightened awareness of threat correlates with higher expenditure Enterprises spending MORE on IT security than 3 years ago are MORE concerned about the threats employees bring: 82% 69% 10% Enterprises spending MORE than 10% of their overall IT budget on security are MORE concerned than the lowest spenders (less than 5% of overall budget) about threats such as: 86% Employees’ attitude toward security protocols Malware 83% 74% Use of personal cloud storage such as Dropbox 76% 57% 45% Use of personally-owned devices 63% 67% 62% Use of personal cloud storage such as Dropbox 65% 73% Malicious external attacks (not commercially motivated) 63% 45% Use of mobile devices 57% Internal threats/attacks Percentage of spend categories recognising the factor as a threat or major threat CONFIDENCE IN PROTECTION AGAINST THREATS Low confidence in protection measures is highest where security expenditure has increased 58% of enterprises are not entirely confident of the controls/protection they have against ANY security threat. More of those that have increased spend in the last 3 years say that they are entirely confident in some of their protection measures than those whose spend has stayed the same or declined (48% vs 31%). The threats most enterprises feel least protected against are: 1. Employees' attitude toward security protocol (only 2% say they are entirely confident) 2. Use of personal cloud storage such as Dropbox (10%) 3. Internal threats/attacks (11%) Survey conducted in March 2013 by Vanson Bourne. Responses of 100 senior IT decision-makers in UK commercial enterprises (1000+ employees)