Findings of the latest Global State of Information Security Survey 2007, a worldwide study by CIO magazine, CSO magazine and PricewaterhouseCoopers, show that IT is taking budgetary control for information security, with the 65% of budgets now coming directly from the IT department – a dramatic rise from just 48% a year ago.
Additionally, although data breaches are driving privacy concerns, encryption of data at rest remains a low priority despite it being the source of many data leakage issues.
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