Thales teamed up with 451 Research to poll 1,200 senior security execs around the world. 94% of respondents use sensitive data in the cloud, big data, IoT, container, blockchain, and/or mobile environments. Forty-four percent of respondents say they feel “very” or “extremely” vulnerable to data security threats. For 57% of businesses, the bulk of security budgets goes toward endpoint and mobile security technologies, followed by analysis and correlation tools (50%) The disconnect extends to encryption, which many cite as important but don’t allocate spending toward encryption tech.”]
Source: https://www.darkreading.com/cloud/endpoint-and-mobile-top-security-spending-at-57-of-businesses