SMALL and MEDIUM Business, BIG Investment?

Today, investment in IT Security is no longer a solely big players’ concern, after investing a huge fund in their IT Security system, the big players manage to loose themselves as the main target of cyber criminal. With the best hardware, software and well trained workforce in place, the cyber criminal have difficulties to break through their well-built defense. As a result, cyber criminal switched their target from the big players to the small and medium business.

In stead of surrendering to the cyber criminal, many small and medium businesses make a decision to take the challenge and get prepared to battle with the cyber criminal. Many small and medium businesses increased the IT Security Budget as to advance their IT Security system and skilled their IT Security workforce.

According to “The Global State Of Information Security 2008” report, investment in IT security is going up, especially in medium business. Although there are small numbers of businesses decrease their IT security budget: small business – 4%, medium business – 5% and big players – 7%. However, 46% of small businesses, 55% of medium businesses and 50% of the big players decided to increase their IT Security Budget. This is a clear sign for the increasingly importance of IT Security to today’s businesses. Size Does Not Matter When It Come To IT Security!

References:The Global State Of Information Security 2008 – A Joint Research Rroject of CIO and CSO in partnership with PricewaterhouseCoopers