CYBERSECURITY
Inside
Targeted attacks
are here to
stay, writes
Maija Palmer
Page 4FINANCIAL TIMES SPECIAL REPORT | Tuesday November 1 2011
www.
ft.
com/cybersecuritynovember2011 | twitter.
com/ftreports
W
hile large companies around
the world realise that...
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CYBERSECURITY
Inside
Targeted attacks
are here to
stay, writes
Maija Palmer
Page 4FINANCIAL TIMES SPECIAL REPORT | Tuesday November 1 2011
www.
ft.
com/cybersecuritynovember2011 | twitter.
com/ftreports
W
hile large companies around
the world realise that cybersecurity weaknesses are a
growing threat, they are not
increasing spending to meet
the challenge, according to
recent surveys.
In a PwC poll of thousands of executives, just
over half the respondents
expected their companies to
spend more next year on
technology security, just as
they had the year before.
Yet the confidence of
those information technology executives and PwC clients in their organisations’
defences has sunk to the
lowest point since the survey began six years ago.
The apparent contradiction raises troubling questions about the state of the
technology, corporate governance, and the ability of
company leaders to act in a
complex and evolving arena
without a short-term crisis
or similar motivation.
The apparent
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