Survey Insights: Staffing Shortages In IT And Corporate Security

According to our recent Security Staffing survey, IT security executives believe their organizatons are in greater jeopardy due to staffing shortages than their peers that oversee corporate security. Additionally, IT uses flex time and training as a motivator more so than corporate security executives. Corporate security organizations outsource more than IT security departments and the most frequently outsourced positions were security guards and guard management, while IT security were more likely to outsource data back up and biometrics.

Our study asked about both corporate security staffing issues and also IT security issues. The results shown here are based on the responses of 218 security professionals. Fifty-two percent of respondents had responsibility for IT security while 22 percent were in charge of corporate security. Twenty-six percent had responsibility for both.

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