IT leaders are more optimistic that corporate purse strings will loosen up in 2015. Security spending has been a constant growth area for the past decade. Security breaches at Home Depot, Target, Michaels and myriad other companies have propelled security spending to the top of the IT priority list for 2015. IT is expected to again kick up spending on security tools, customer-facing technologies and information exchange/collaboration technologies that comprise the SMAC stack social and mobile tools, analytic systems and cloud computing.”]
Source: https://www.computerworld.com/article/2840907/forecast-2015-it-spending-on-an-upswing.html