A report has found that more than half the companies surveyed had increased their information-security budget in the past year.
While viruses, worms and hacking attacks continue to evolve, the costs of security failure have about doubled for each of the last five years.
Federal Minister for Finance and Deregulation, Lindsay Tanner, has pledged to eradicate the costs of the previous government's "haphazard and fragmented" IT spending, but one commentator has argued that the government needs to spend more to make more of its technology.
Cisco Systems chief executive John Chambers on Wednesday gave an upbeat assessment of information technology spending next year, saying Cisco customers are "beginning to get their foot off the brake."
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The latest survey from IDC shows that over half of the enterprises in Asia-Pacific invested in security solutions in 2002.
A report has found that more than half the companies surveyed had increased their information-security budget in the past year.
While viruses, worms and hacking attacks continue to evolve, the costs of security failure have about doubled for each of the last five years.
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Is it possible that consulting services would be among the first to see spending as confidence returns among business leaders?
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