2010 Security Spending Priorities

Marcia Savage has a nice round-up on spending for 2010 in the latest issue of Information Security Magazine.

After the extensive cutbacks at the end of 2008, enterprises seem to be feeling a little more comfortable about overall budgets, says Diana Kelley, founder and partner at Amherst, N.H.-based consulting firm SecurityCurve. However, security spending will likely be slower to pick up than other spending.

“If people are feeling a little more comfortable, they’ll want to see what happens with profit and the bottom line before they start allocating big huge chunks back into security,” she says, noting that security is traditionally seen as a cost center rather than a profit center.