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Chapter 7
Information Security
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Beau Woods
An informal survey of the stories on information security budgeting suggests that 40–60% of
organizations are cutting or holding their budget the same over the last year. And of those that are
increasing their budgets, most increases are small. is is at a time when the actual threats are on
the rise, security has risen in importance to the organization, vendors are daily coming out with
solutions to problems we did not know we had a year ago, and hiring and keeping good people is
becoming increasingly difficult and expensive.
ankfully, effective information security does not have to be over ...