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Nordic Information Security 2006
Waagstein Research AB, Feb 2006
How much do Nordic companies and organisations spend on IT security and what changes are expected in 2006?
What are the top priority information security investments for Nordic companies and organisations in 2006?
What is causing changes in information security cost size and investment decisions?
What internal and external information security threats are rated as most important?
How does risk-sensitivity vary between different types of organisations?
Nordic companies and organisations have during the last few years faced increasing threats to their information security for several reasons, such as enhanced connectivity, increased level of organised IT crime as well as increased reliance on online business and intellectual property rights. This trend of increased threats is only expected to continue in the coming years. The question is how this will affect the size and allocation of information security budgets and investments.
In order to understand the future trends of costs and investments in information security, how Nordic companies and organisation perceive various threats and how well prepared they are to face the threats must first be understood. Also, it is important to understand what level of risk that is perceived as acceptable.
“Nordic Information Security 2006” maps out Nordic companies and organisations’ spending and investments in information security. Furthermore, how Nordic companies and organisations rank various threats against their information, how they value their information and how well protected they are as well as how prepared they are to cope with and recover from information security breaches is described and analysed.
The Nordic Information Security 2006 report is designed to:
- Enable a better understanding of the value that Nordic companies and organisations put on their information assets and how much they are willing to spend in order to protect them.
- Show where Nordic companies and organisation see the most important threats to their information security coming from.
- Give an overview of how well prepared Nordic companies and organisations are to face internal and external information security threats as well as to recover from breaches.
- Provide comparison figures for the size of information security costs in Nordic companies and organisations.
- Show in what areas Nordic companies and organisations are making their most important information security investments.
- Provide an aid for negotiating information security budgets
Method
The survey, which is quantitative, has been carried out by means of a survey of leading decision makers such as CIO, Information security managers, CFOs and CEOs in Nordic companies and organisations in the private and public sector. The interviews were made in November 2005. The results from the survey is presented and analysed broken down by sector, size and country:
Sectors: Trade, Services, Manufacturing, Public sector
Size: Medium-sized (25 – 100 MEUR), Large (>100 MEUR)
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland
Target Group
The report is written based on mainly the needs and requirements of the IT management of medium-sized and large companies and organisations in the Nordic countries. The target group of the report is primarily: CIO/IT managers, Information security managers, CFOs, Purchase managers, Outsourcing managers, Controllers, IT strategists, Consultants and CEOs. The report will however also be interesting for vendors of information security products and services in order to better understand their customers.
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