http://www.csoonline.com/article/691487/case-study-security-on-a-shoestring-budget By Joan Goodchild Senior Editor CSO October 11, 2011 According to figures released recently by Kaspersky Lab, 1300 IT pros were asked about IT risks and security spending. Among large companies, the average security budget is $3.35 million, according to Kaspersky's data. To Michael Dent, CISO of Fairfax County Government in Virginia, this sounds like an incredibly huge amount of money. After all, he wanted to start his security program with just over $1 million. What he got was about one-quarter of that request. Dent took on his current role as CISO with Fairfax County in 2002 after creating and managing the security program for the Virginia Department of Corrections information technology department. His goal was to establish an enterprise IT security program, something that was lacking before he came on board. He recently spoke with CSO about how he managed to get a program off the ground with a very small level of funding, and how he turned his efforts into a chance to earn management's respect—and more financial support for security in the future. [...] _____________________________________________________________ FINAL CALL to register #HITB2011KUL - Asia's premier deep-knowledge network security event now in it's 9th year! http://conference.hitb.org/hitbsecconf2011kul/Received on Wed Oct 12 2011 - 01:39:24 PDT
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