Security executives are becoming more complacent about dealing with e-crime threats. The fourth annual CSO E-Crime Watch Survey polled 671 law enforcement officials and security executives. Insider threats are still rising, but only 57 percent of respondents conduct employee background checks. IT security spending this year fell by 5 percent and corporate security spending by 15 percent. Firewalls are the most effective technology to prevent e-crimes, says Jeff Jones, director of trustworthy computing for Microsoft.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2122157/survey–security-complacency-rising-among-execs.html