Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
That is the rather surprising conclusion of a VeriSign sponsored survey, published today. In fact 63 percent of the IT professionals questioned said there will be no such cut backs in the UK next year.
VeriSign has published the results of a survey
which appears to buck the current doom and gloom economic trend.
Instead it concludes that, in the UK at any rate, IT security
professionals do not expect to see budgets cut over the next year.
The key word here being security, I suspect, as
this is one area where businesses simply cannot afford to cut corners.
The bean counters will have already calculated the risk factors and
realised that leaving the business exposed to lawsuits and regulatory
slaps will cost more than the short terms savings to be made.
Eighty-two percent of those asked said that a reduction in IT security
spending in the downturn will hurt businesses in the long run.
However, those same IT professionals did concede that they are being
pressured ever increasingly to demonstrate value and efficiency to the
business. So at least there is some good coming out of this awful
credit crunch then.
Yet while 63 percent believe that there will be no budget cut backs
over the coming 12 months, some do still think budgets will be cut.
These, remarkably, remain fairly positive with 77 percent of them
saying that cut will be less than 20 percent.
When pressed as to where those cuts would happen, 75 percent expected
staff to take the brunt of the bashing along with overhead costs.
Mike Davies, director of Identification and Authentication Services,
VeriSign EMEA, said, "As consumer confidence erodes in the economic
downturn, it's important that businesses encourage trust in online
services. Security and trust need to be top of mind for businesses
wishing to maintain the recent boom years of online transactions in
today's economic climate."
David Bass
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