Are you spending more and securing less?

Ask most people working in the enterprise IT security sphere what they would wish for and the majority will jump down your throat in a mad rush to call for a bigger budget. My elderly mother continues to warn about be careful what you wish for, and I’ve never quite really understood what she means. I doubt very much, to be honest, that she had IT security budgets in mind at any time during the last 80 years but perhaps she should have done. New research would seem to confirm something that I have often thrown out there, and that is the simple fact that money is not the be all and end all of data security. There, I’ve said it. Sorry.