Boston, MA, Nov. 19, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — IDG Communications, Inc. – the world’s leading tech media, data, and marketing services company – releases the 2020 IDG Security Priorities study, which outlines the security projects organizations are focused on, the factors driving security spending, and the security-related challenges that organizations are experiencing. In its fourth year, this study also explores issues that will demand the most time and strategic thinking from IT and security teams, with an increased focus on security strategy during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Security and the Pandemic
The majority of security/IT executives (62%) say they expect the pandemic to impact the way their organization evaluates and responds to risks moving forward. This has stabilized some since March, when 73% of respondents to the 2020 CSO Pandemic Impact survey said that the impact of this pandemic will alter the way their business evaluates risk for at least the next five years. This additional focus on security includes investing more in people to enable their response to risk (43%), increasing investment in response planning resources to address risk (38%), and updating…
