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The 2006 IT Security Study
This study, based on a survey of North American IT security managers, analyzes information security spending, staffing, incidents, the rate of technology adoption, and the deployment of security best practices for large, medium, and small organizations. This year's study found that large firms lag behind mid-size organizations in IT security spending, staffing, technology, and management best practices. It also found that many companies of all sizes fail to implement a number of basic security management best practices. Yet, in spite of these deficiencies, most companies are not authorizing more money for IT security. (186 pp., 150 figs.)[More about the study, and special pricing per chapter]
March, 2006
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The 2006 IT Security Study: Chapters 1 and 2
Chapter 1 (Executive Summary) of our 2006 IT Security Study summarizes key findings of the full report with supporting statistics. Chapter 2 (All Organizations) provides composite statistics for all participants in our survey, including IT security budget and staffing ratios and trends, IT security technology adoption trends, and trends in IT security management best practices. It also provides provides summary statistics for the IT security incidents, including: number of infosec incidents by source, percentage of incidents by point of entry, and the impact of IT security incidents on corporate websites. (87 pp., 46 figs.)[Description of the full study...]
March, 2006
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The 2006 IT Security Study: Chapter 1, Executive Summary
This Executive Summary (Chapter 1) of our 2006 IT Security Study summarizes key findings of the full report and provides supporting statistics. It also includes key findings from the related Malware Report, details of the survey demographics by industry sector and job position, and a comparison with the CSI/FBI security survey. (21 pp., 6 figs.)[Read more about the study]
March, 2006
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IT Staff Ratios and Trends: Executive Summary
Just as a record-setting summer heat wave or a particularly cold winter can mask long-term climate changes, so also focusing on the shift between hiring and firing from year to year can mask long-term changes in IT staffing. This article is an executive summary of our report, Long Term Trends in IT Staffing Ratios, which identifies the job categories are growing--and those that are shrinking--in the typical corporate IT department and what the shift in the job mix means for the future of IT staffing.
March, 2006
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Long-Term Trends in IT Staffing Ratios
Over the past decade, the mix of jobs in the typical IT department has been changing, in ways that are not commonly recognized. This article, based on 10 years of our IT staffing metrics, identifies those changes and their significance for the future of IT staffing. The following job categories are analyzed in terms of their current percentage in the typical IT organization and relative growth or decline over the past five and 10 year periods: Application Development, System Management, Network Administration, Database Administration, QA/QC, Help Desk & PC Support, Website Management, Computer Operations, Documentation/Training, Administration & Clerical, and IT Management. (8 pp., 3 figs.)[Executive Summary]
March, 2006
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Ten-Year Trends in IT Spending and Outlook for 2006
This article examines long-term trends in IT spending, based on Computer Economics surveys of several thousand CIOs and senior IT managers in North America over the past 10 years. The long term trend for three key IT spending metrics are documented: IT budget as a percent of revenues, IT spending per employee, and the percentage change of IT budgets year over year. Bottom line: the post-Y2K bust and dot-com collapse in IT spending are now behind us, and IT spending ratios have returned to their long term trend lines. We use these trends to forecast these statistics for the coming year.
February, 2006
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IT Jobs on the Upswing
A recent Computer Economics poll shows that IT salaries are increasing. This and other measures indicate a strengthening IT job market, although demand is shifting in terms of skills.
February, 2006
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Join Us at Data Center World
Computer Economics will be speaking on the subject, How to Cost-Justify an IT Investment, at AFCOM's spring Data Center World conference in March, 2006. The presentation will explain how IT managers can use the concept of economic value added (EVA) to build the business case for IT infrastructure and data center investments.
February, 2006
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IT Security: Large Firms Lag Behind
By nearly every measure, large firms lag behind mid-size organizations in IT security spending, staffing, technology, and management best practices. This Research Byte is a press release for the our 2006 IT Security Study: The Current State of IT Security Budgets, Management Practices, and Security Incidents, highlighting this and some other key findings of the report.
February, 2006
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Countering the Phishing/Pharming Threat
Phishing attacks are growing in number and in technical sophistication. Furthermore, the impact of these incidents is increasing, with a significant portion in the form of pharming attacks, the newest and most deadly form of phishing. This article explains the evolution of phishing attacks and outlines the countermeasures that organizations need to defend effectively against them. (9 pp., 2 figs.)
February, 2006
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Staffing the Database Function: Executive Summary
IT executives know that databases are important, but they sometimes find it difficult to justify the support staff required to maintain the database infrastructure. How many personnel should be dedicated to database support for a company of our size? What is the typical ratio of database staff to the total IT staff? How many headcount do other IT organizations dedicate to the database function? What are the economic returns for database software? This Research Byte is an executive summary of our full report, Database Staffing Benchmarks, which provides answers to these questions.
February, 2006
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Vendor Discounts on Computer Equipment (Feb. 2006)
Market intelligence on current discounting practices for computer equipment can be difficult for buyers to obtain. Vendors often require buyers to sign non-disclosure agreements as a condition to receiving their largest and best discounted. As a result, future buyers may find it difficult to determine whether the discount that the vendor is offering is typical or whether a better deal can be negotiated. This report, based on our knowledge of current market conditions, provides IT buyers with insight and guidance concerning current discount structures on a variety of categories of computer equipment. Categories include personal computers (desktops, notebooks, and monitors), servers (blade servers, mainframes, and midrange servers), workstations, disk systems, tape storage, miscellaneous I/O, and networking equipment. Vendors covered include IBM, HP, Sun, EMC, HDS, StorageTek, Cisco, Juniper, and CipherOptics. (6 pp., 15 figs.)
February, 2006
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Notebook Computers: Fair Market Value Analysis (2001-2005)
This special study gives detailed information on notebook computer configurations, performance, and fair market values (FMV) by vendor over the last five years. Vendors include Dell, IBM (Lenovo), HP/Compaq, and Toshiba. Data includes historical average unit cost, cost/GHz, FMV decline curves as a percentage of list price, and discount practices, Technology buyers will find this a valuable source of information for accurately forecasting the residual value of laptop computers in use today or planned for aquisition, maximizing the useful life of equipment, and developing purchasing and leasing strategies. (111 pp., 25 figs.)
January, 2006
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Database Staffing Benchmarks
The increasing size and number of databases makes database administration and support a critical function in nearly every IT organization. But decision-makers may be hard-pressed to justify the support staff required to maintain the database infrastructure. How many personnel should be dedicated to data base for a company of our size? What is the typical ratio of database staff (full time equivalents, or FTE) to the total IT staff? How many headcount do other IT organizations dedicate to the database function? What are the economic returns for database software? This report provides benchmark metrics to answer these questions. (7 pp., 8 figs.)[Executive Summary]
January, 2006
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Network Spending and Staffing Benchmarks
This report provides benchmarks for network infrastructure spending as a percent of the total IT budget and network administration and support staff as a percent of the total IT staff, based on data collected in 2004-2005 from over 300 IT organizations in the U.S. and Canada. A high level analysis of the network hardware and software return on investment and total cost of ownership experiences of these IT organizations is also provided. (10 pp., 7 figs.)[Note: a newer version of these benchmarks exists: read the Executive Summary]
January, 2006
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