Information security was rated as the most important of all meta-trends in a recent ESG research survey. ESG asked 601 IT professionals working at mid-market (i.e. 500 to 999 employees) and enterprise organizations in North America and Europe to rank 6 different IT initiatives on a scale from 1 (most important) to 6 (least important) The results were as follows:Information security: Mean score of 2.31 (2.31) Data center modernization (aka, software-defined data center) Data analytics: Mean. use of public cloud for applications and infrastructure (Mean score of 3.42)”]