I wrote some of my views on information security cost cutting a couple of weeks ago. You can read them here: http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/stuart_king/2008/07/reducing-security-costs.html. On a related note I was reading an article by Charles Cresson Wood published in the latest Computer
http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/stuart_king/2008/07/security-budgets.html
...talk about where information securitybudgets are heading. Some of it is...thinking. Many people claim that securitybudgets are holding up, but at the...layoffs. Gartner report that securitybudgets are currently flat, while...
http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/david_lacey/
...wide range of IT subjects IT securitybudgets 'stabilising' 24/04...see further cuts to technology securitybudgets in the rest of the year. ...for telecoms specialists IT securitybudgets 'stabilising' Data integration...
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