Security budget cuts keeping IT pros up at night
Thursday, May 14, 2009
As companies have slashed their IT security budgets during the recession, they have taken a toll on their IT staff, according to the latest survey that asks "what keeps network administrators up at night?"
The world of enterprise network and systems administrators has seen IT budget landscapes turned upside down, producing a dynamic of IT security "haves" and "have-nots," according to VanDyke Software, which commissioned the survey.
When asked what keeps them up at night, slightly more than one-third (36 percent) of the respondents said they were "sleeping like a baby." But anxieties varied between those who feel like their IT budgets are sufficient and those who do not.
Among those who felt their organization has budgeted sufficiently to support their current security needs, 48 percent said they were sleeping like a baby. Only 22 percent of those with an insufficient budget said they were sleeping like a baby.
Almost half (46 percent) of network and systems administrators feel that their organization has not budgeted sufficiently to support current information security needs - up significantly from 36 percent in 2008, the survey found.
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