The Challenges
ESG asked 633 IT professionals and managers to name their most important IT priorities, and information security was cited by 37% of respondents, making it the most-often cited response by a wide margin.[1] Business intelligence and data analytics initiatives ranked second, cited by 24% of respondents. In addition, when asked to identify their most important justifications for IT investments, while 39% of organizations named improved security, 32% called out business process improvement and 27% indicated a reduction in operational expenditures, which suggests that while information security is certainly at the top of mind, operational improvement is not far behind.
