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2009 RSA Attendees Split on the Effects of the Economic Downturn on Security Budgets
Secure Passage Survey Reveals That Reacting to New Security Threats and Regulations Lead the List of Reasons IT Decision Makers Will Spend Budget in the Next 12 Months
| Source: Secure Passage
SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - April 22, 2009) - RSA CONFERENCE -- Secure Passage today announced
that its man-on-the-street survey at RSA Conference 2009 revealed that
there is no consensus about spending for IT security. When asked if the
downturn in the economy would have negative, positive or no implications
for security budgets, the more than 100 respondents were nearly split in
their perspectives. Thirty-two percent of respondents felt their budgets
would increase and 32 percent believed budgets would decline; and 38
percent expected budgets to remain about the same over the next 12 months.
The survey further reveals that new security threats and regulations would
drive any new spend in security over the coming months.
When queried on the potential effects of a budget decline, 30 percent
responded that their chief concern would be protecting against new security
threats. The second biggest concern from the group of respondents was that
they wouldn't have the staff or resources to comply with audits and other
regulations.
The number one category of security spending expected to be negatively
impacted by a security budget decline was security training -- a full 30
percent of respondents classified this as the first area to be sacrificed.
Next on the list was network security -- where 25 percent of respondents
believed this would be an area they could trim their budgets. The most
protected area of security was remote access -- only three percent of the
respondents felt they could trim spending in this category. The next most
protected area was desktop access, where only 13 percent of respondents
would expect to cut spending in this category.
The survey polled 109 conference attendees that are involved in the IT
decision making process for organizations within a wide variety of
industries, including health care, government, financial, insurance and
telecom.
Join Secure Passage in a discussion of this survey and other security
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Passage, stop by booth 553 on the RSA Conference 2009 Expo floor.
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