Historically, the IT function is one of the frst to feel the pressure to reduce expenditures, and traditionally,information security has been closely linked with IT. Our survey confrms the link between IT and information security is still very strong (71% of respondents meet monthly with IT), but the pressure to reduce costs does not appear to be carrying over to the information security function. In fact, only 5% of respondents indicate they will be reducing annual expenditures for information security and 50% plan to increase their investment in information security as a percentage of total expenditures.In addition, only 33% of respondents cite adequate budget as a challenge to delivering their information security initiatives. Read more…
What Would Google Do?(COLLINS BUSINESS, 2009) 是Jeff Jarvis的一本猛书,它总结了Jeff关于Google时代的新经济法则,并非常有创意地探讨、预测了Google对于若干行业的打击和再生,例如Google航空,Google电力,Google餐厅,Google电话电报公司GTT,Google保险公司等。这本书的中文版应该是已经出版了。
这本书和Chris Anderson的长尾理论(The Long Tail)在话题和理论方向上是有很多相似之处的。它们都以互联网时代、尤其是Google时代背景下,宏观上出现了一个由紧缺(Scarcity)经济向丰饶(Abandunce)经济的深远改变。这个改变深刻地影响了、也正在影响着当前各个行业的业务模式和人们的生活方式。虽然两位作者主要从传播媒体、流行音乐、广告等行业来论述了长尾理论、丰饶经济、原子掣肘(Atom is a drag)等,我们相信这些理论对于我们IT基础设施服务、对于信息网络安全都有深刻的影响。
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