Dubai’s Corporate Publishing International (CPI) announced the results of a recently conducted security survey.

Out of 185 IT decision makers who were surveyed by CPI, 53% said building a security strategy that connects people, process and technology was their main challenge. The remaining 47% consider measuring ROI on security as their main challenge.

“Security has always been a key challenge for organization no matter their size,” said Kavitha Rajshekar, Director CIO Programmes at CPI, in a statement. “However, by collaborating with CIOs and IT decision makers in the region we hope to create a pertinent learning platform where new technologies, solutions and innovative approaches towards security are brought to the fore. The security survey was conducted as a preliminary exercise to understand core issues of the CIOs today, and to customize the Security Strategist 2011 event around these issues to make it most relevant for them.”

According to another finding of the survey, 59% of the IT decision makers surveyed said they would spend their money on Business Continuity, while 41% said it would go towards Managed Security Services. Also, 88% of those surveyed said they have a roadmap for investing in 2011, while only 12% said they had cut back on spending.

“In today’s environment where information travels faster than the speed of light and traditional mechanisms become obsolete by the minute, the approach to stand-alone security approach is fast changing to accommodate trust and collaboration amongst many stakeholders. The premise of ’isolation for security’ is fast changing giving way collaboration for security. Our endeavor with Security Strategist 2011 is to harness this power of collaboration by bring together multiple stakeholders on a single platform to discuss the key security challenges faced by their organization and assist them in tackling the same in the most efficient manner, ” Ms. Rajshekhar added.

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Edited by Rich Steeves