Security boom is over, with over a third of CISOs reporting flat or falling budgets

It looks like security budgets are coming up against belt-tightening policies, with chief security officers reporting budgets rising more slowly than ever and over a third saying their spending this year will be flat or even reduced. The same is true for staffing levels, according to the fifth annual survey of CISOs carried …

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An encouraging sign

It may be an encouraging sign for technology suppliers that they get to foist on to their customers more of the ever-increasing cost of remediating the deficiencies in their commercial products, but I'd be more encouraged if the law started tightening up on those "fit for purpose" disclaimers.