Security is now the top IT challenge: IDC

Security has surpassed cost-control and cost containment issues as a concern that tops the list of IT challenges, new IDC research shows. According to IDC's latest Enterprise Technology Trends (ETT) survey - conducted between April and May 2004 amongst US and Canadian companies - over three quarters of IT and business executives rated this challenge as an extremely or very significant concern or IT challenge for their organisations.

"Our latest survey findings indicate that IT spending on security and business continuity has increased at 59 percent of organisations in the last 12 months," said Lucie Draper, program manager for IDC's Enterprise Technology Trends, Vertical Markets Group. "We believe that despite the economic environment, and in some cases because of the geopolitical environment, the prospects for vendors of security technologies are good."

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•Date: 4th August 2004 • Region: N.America •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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