No foggy thinking in the cloud
Spending on IT security continues to grow, but as vulnerabilities are discovered at an ever-increasing rate, many businesses are still failing to cover the basics, writes Jason Walsh
Of all the aspects of enterprise IT that have been outsourced to service providers, none makes more sense than security. For small and medium businesses, cybersecurity is a mysterious and arcane art, and for large enterprises its complexity is impossible to exaggerate.
In addition, the global shortage of IT security staff has created a salary bonanza that makes experts hard to hire and even harder to hold onto.
IT departments still bear the ...