Enterprises advised to reduce IT security budgets 

Enterprises advised to reduce IT security budgets

Gartner recommends a three percent cut.
Security spending rebounding strongly 

Security spending rebounding strongly

Spending rises over 10 percent in Q4 2009.
Online spending expected to be down this Christmas 

Online spending expected to be down this Christmas

Reservations over identity theft and fraud persist.
Security spending to rise faster than average 

Security spending to rise faster than average

Software and services to rise by four percent.
Security spending to survive the downturn 

Security spending to survive the downturn

Budget reductions unlikely, claims VeriSign.
IDC, Forrester reduce projections for growth of IT spending in 2008 

IDC, Forrester reduce projections for growth of IT spending in 2008

Two leading market research firms have lowered their projections for the growth of spending on information technology, including IT security, in 2008 due to the weakening economy.
CompTIA: Security spending to soar 

CompTIA: Security spending to soar

Spending on security technology, training, assessments and certification will eat up an greater part of IT spending in the next year, according to a survey from the Computing ...
Global IT spending to hit US'$1.5 trillion by 2010' 

Global IT spending to hit US'$1.5 trillion by 2010'

Global IT spending is expected to reach US$1.5 trillion by 2010, new research shows.
Small business IT spending on the rise 

Small business IT spending on the rise

IT budgets for small and medium-sized businesses are set to increase by more than 12 percent this year, double the rate of similar companies in France and Germany, according to ...
China business VoIP exchange spending to triple 

China business VoIP exchange spending to triple

Businesses in China will triple their spending over the next four years on hardware that saves money by routing phone calls over the internet, a new report forecasts.
IT Security spending set to grow significantly 

IT Security spending set to grow significantly

IT security spending will grow significantly this year, according to a new report.
Corporations spending more on IT - but not on personnel 

Corporations spending more on IT - but not on personnel

Fueled by positive economic growth within organizations, corporate IT spending – expressed as a percentage of revenue – has reached its highest level in nine years, a new study ...
Emerging threats fuel security support spending boom  

Emerging threats fuel security support spending boom

Ill-prepared global IT organizations are trying to cover up after being "sucker-punched" with a vicious combination of emerging security threats, IDC warned yesterday.
Small firms, growing security spending 

Small firms, growing security spending

Smaller U.K. companies are preparing to "drastically" boost IT security spending as they move beyond anti-virus solutions to the deployment of firewall and intrusion-detection ...
Gartner: Some firms cutting IT spending 

Gartner: Some firms cutting IT spending

Gartner analysts predicted a small subsection of the most advanced large organizations will spend less of their overall IT budgets on security in the coming year.
Smaller firms spending more wisely, study says 

Smaller firms spending more wisely, study says

Large organizations trail smaller counterparts in terms of defending their networks, a new Computer Economics study has found.
IT managers spending more time on security 

IT managers spending more time on security

A survey released Monday by security vendor Secure Computing showed that IT managers are spending more hours on security and are more worried about spyware than spam.
Avoiding internet threats top security spending driver 

Avoiding internet threats top security spending driver

The main motivator for spending money on IT security is preventing external threats that interfere with business, according to a survey of enterprises conducted by AberdeenGroup.
US security software support services spending set to soar  

US security software support services spending set to soar

Fuelled by a fast growing threat from phishers, spammers, hackers and organized criminals, the need for security software continues to intensify in the United States.
META: Security spending to peak at up to 12 percent of IT budgets 

META: Security spending to peak at up to 12 percent of IT budgets

The average security investment will peak at eight to 12 per cent of IT budgets in the U.S. by 2006, and in Europe and the Asia Pacific region by 2007, according to report ...
Firms' security spending highly reactive 

Firms' security spending highly reactive

Seventy per cent of IT security spending is a direct result of a security breach.
Audit/compliance driving security spending 

Audit/compliance driving security spending

Companies plan to spend more on security over the next year mostly on software for audit/compliance related projects, according to market-research firm TheInfoPro.
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