...increased to £169bn during 2006 - an 8% jump from 2005 - but growth in IT spending was expected to slow from 2007. Compliancedrives data protection investment Businesses are only just waking up to the need to invest in data protection and privacy...
http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2006/11/21/219991/news-in-brief.htm
...these new systems will become the focal point of security research and exploitation. Finally, IBM cautioned that compliancedrives but does not equal security. Regulatory mandates will continue to drive organizations to comply with security...
http://www.internetnews.com/security/article.php/3849636