Reputation Concerns Drive Spending

May 5, 2008

HONG KONG, April 23 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ — Avoiding reputation damage to the organization was viewed as a top priority for security programs by nearly three quarters of information security professionals surveyed in a worldwide study launched today by (ISC)2(R) (”ISC-squared”), the non-profit global leader in educating and certifying information security professionals throughout their careers.

The 2008 Global Information Security Workforce Study (”GISWS”) was conducted by analyst firm Frost & Sullivan (News - Alert) on behalf of (ISC)2. It surveyed 7,548 information security professionals, including over 1,500 ‘C-suite’ executives and security managers, as well as practitioners and IT and other professionals with responsibility for information security, from companies and public sector organizations in more than 100 countries. Respondents came from the three major regions of the world: Asia-Pacific (34 percent), Americas (41 percent), and Europe, Middle East and Africa (”EMEA”) (25 percent). Web-based surveys were distributed to targeted information security respondents worldwide in the third quarter of 2007.

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