Information security topped the list of projects executives expect their firms to invest in, with 43 percent of the response. Technology executives in the financial services and transportation sectors cited security most often. The results are based on telephone interviews with more than 1,400 CIOs from companies across the U.S. with 100 or more employees. Forrester Research: Security portion of IT budgets is expected to rise 12.6 percent in 2009, up from 7.2 percent in 2007 and 11.7 percent in 2008.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2123899/report–security-tops-it-budget-priorities.html