IT managers are ranking information security as high IT priority within their
organizations, but more training and better policies are necessary to protect them
from new threats, according to survey results released by CompTIA on Nov. 18.
CompTIA’s Global Security Trends, an annual report examining information
security in its eighth year, surveyed 1,400 IT and business executives “directly” involved with defining or implementing information
security in the organization. The surveyed countries include Brazil,
Canada, China,
France, Germany,
India, Mexico,
South Africa, United
Kingdom and the United
States.
About 49 percent of respondents in the United
States rated information security as an
"upper level" IT priority in the 2010 report. This was over a 10
percent jump from 2008, and researchers expect to see another jump of almost 10
percent, to 58 percent, in 2012, said Tim Herbert, vice president of research
at CompTIA to eWEEK.
When looked at globally, the numbers remained the same, with the 2012
results edging up slightly to 62 percent. Companies in South
Africa, India,
Brazil and the United
Kingdom placed the most emphasis on
information security as an organizational priority, according to CompTIA.
For more, read the eWeek article CompTIA Study Finds IT Managers Struggle to Solve Emerging Threats.