Encryption a big concern in 2009

A new Forrester survey shows security budgets increasing in 2009, and likely to consume 12.6 percent of the average IT operating budget. That's up from 11.7 percent in 2008. The survey was based on responses from 942 IT and security managers in North America and Europe. Full-disk encryption was cited as the top client security technology to be piloted or adopted this year, along with file-level encryption.

About a fifth of the organizations also said they expect to pilot or adopt data-leak prevention during the next 12 months. Staffing and upgrades to existing security technology are taking up over half of the IT security budgets overall, according to the Forrester' report, "The State of Enterprise IT Security: 2008 to 2009."

The survey also shows 20 percent of the available IT security funding this year is expected to go to security outsourcing, consultants and managed services, with another 18.5 percent targeting new security initiatives.

For more on security:
 - see this NetworkWorld.com article

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