Metrics / Budgets — News

Australia has experienced a declining participation in government-lead critical infrastructure protection (CIP) programs this year due to fewer resources, according to a new survey from Symantec.

Gartner is predicting that corporate spending across the world for a broad swath of security services will climb from about $US35 billion today to $US49 billion in three years, with the managed security services expected to jump most of all.

According to figures released recently by Kaspersky Lab, 1300 IT pros were asked about IT risks and security spending. Among large companies, the average security budget is $3.35 million, according to Kaspersky's data.

1. Asking for a 10 percent budget increase in the next fiscal year:

More budget? Perhaps a little. More attention from senior management? Yes, a bit. Better results? That's not so clear.

As a CSO and CIO you may be wondering why I crafted a diagnostic related to understanding your most critical web products. The original purpose of the diagnostic was to discern which applications and how applications are ported successfully to a service provider's cloud. The diagnostic determines which cloud IaaS products (storage components, network components, and virtualization machines) are needed for an application. It addresses the platform components (server/operating system and web server) in the PaaS layer. Lastly, it focuses on the SaaS software application.