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Survey: Cybersecurity budgets aren’t matching cybersecurity challenges

Tech Republic Security

A new study finds that due to the growing threat surface from hybrid work and third-party vendors, only half of organizations have the budget to meet current cybersecurity needs. The post Survey: Cybersecurity budgets aren’t matching cybersecurity challenges appeared first on TechRepublic.

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Pen testing report: IT budgets should focus on entire security stack

Tech Republic Security

With nearly 90% of companies reporting cyberattacks, pen testing budgets are on the rise, with cloud infrastructure and services a key focus area, according to a new report. The post Pen testing report: IT budgets should focus on entire security stack appeared first on TechRepublic.

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How To Adjust Your Tech Budget To Survive Or Thrive In The Pandemic Recession

Forrester IT

The old playbook for how CIOs can manage tech budgets through tough times will not work for today’s pandemic. While CIOs and their business partners are under intense pressure to cut tech budgets, technology plays a vital role in business survival and success during this recession.

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CX Leaders Are Overly Optimistic About Their 2023 Budgets

Forrester IT

Forrester contends that CX leaders are overly optimistic about their budget prospects. Learn where to trim your CX budget in 2023 and key areas to increase investment dollars. Age of the Customer customer experience Customer Experience Measurement real-time CX

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Build or Buy an LMS? How to Pick the Right Solution for Your Budget

BUDGET. When it comes to picking your next LMS that six-letter word is probably the most important part of the decision-making process. So, what are your options to get the best possible eLearning solution without breaking the bank? Build it or buy it. This guide from Lambda’s eLearning experts details absolutely everything you need to consider so you can pick the perfect eLearning solution for your organization and budget.

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How to Budget Effectively for Multi-Cloud

Information Week

Leveraging multiple clouds can lead to greater efficiency, flexibility, and cost savings, but only if you support the effort with a well-planned budget

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Tightening Budgets? Ensure That Your Business Case Stands Out

Forrester IT

Learn how to cut through the noise and build compelling business cases using Forrester's proven Total Economic Impact™ methodology — the same methodology we use to help our clients demonstrate a consistent, proven, and repeatable way to justify technology investments. B2B Marketing Business Value

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IT Budgets: Can You Tell a Good Story?

Information Week

2023 is shaping up to be a less robust spending year for IT budgets. In this environment, IT leaders will have to work harder to sell projects

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Campaign Planning Is Part Of The Budgeting Process — Or, At Least, It Should Be

Forrester IT

Many B2B marketers find joy in campaign planning — but not so much in budgeting. It turns out the two are intimately connected. Age of the Customer B2B Marketing Campaign Planning And Implementation marketing annual planning Marketing Operations promoted uberflip

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India’s Budget 2023: What It Means For Financial Services And FinTechs?

Forrester IT

I looked at the Budget 2023 that India’s Finance Minister presented on Feb 1st 2023. On that day, India’s Prime Minister tweeted, “This year’s Budget infuses new energy to India’s development trajectory”.

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Optimizing Your Cybersecurity Budget

Information Week

Strong cybersecurity comes at a price. The exact amount depends on your risk tolerance

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Discover How Senior Technology Leaders Can Secure the Budget That They Need

Speaker: Kevin Goldsmith, Chief Technology Officer at Anaconda | Peyman Pouryekta, CEO and Technology Advisor | Bob Webber, VP Product Flow Optimization, Construx

In this interactive panel discussion, we will address common pitfalls of investments for CTOs and VPs of Engineering and will teach you how to manage your investments with confidence and properly allocate resources across business priorities.

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Resist Short-Termism To Avoid Brand Budget Cuts

Forrester IT

High-growth companies see brand activation as a vital part of their strategy — even in economic uncertainty. Here are some of the ways that these organizations prioritize it. Age of the Customer B2B Marketing Brand and Communications Chief Marketing Officer promoted

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The 10 Best Ways To Spend Your B2B Paid Media Budget In 2021

Forrester IT

What are the best ways to spend your paid media budget in the new year? Here are 10 ideas you can explore, test, or implement depending on your organization’s level of paid media emphasis and sophistication. Advertising B2B Marketing Demand and Account-Based Marketing SiriusDecisions Researc

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The 10 Best Ways To Spend Your B2B Paid Media Budget In 2022

Forrester IT

What's the best way to spend your paid media advertising budget in 2022? Forrester Principal Analyst John Arnold shares the 10 best ideas. Account-Based Marketing (ABM) Advertising B2B Marketing

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How Can CIOs Avoid Wasting Their Budget?

The Accidental Successful CIO

What steps can a CIO take in order to avoid spending their budget buying technology that will just end up going to waste? As the CIO, you are in charge of determining where the department’s budget gets spent. This could result in a big budget drain.

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CIOs Shift IT Budgets Amid COVID Crisis

Information Week

CIOs have shifted their budgets to fund the great migration to enable employees to work from home, even as they are rethinking investments to make going forward

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Drive Better Results for Your Professional Services Firm Part 2: Deliver Profitable Projects

Speaker: Patrick Connally and Andy Yeomans

Join us on May 19th as Patrick Connally, National Industry Director – U.S. Professional Services at Microsoft, and Andy Yeomans, Executive Vice President at HSO ProServ, explore strategies firms can take to maximize project performance.

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Object Storage: Affordable Data Security Amid “Cloud-flation” Budget Constraints

IT Toolbox

As businesses manage budget cuts, it’s paramount that security features remain off the cutting room floor. The post Object Storage: Affordable Data Security Amid “Cloud-flation” Budget Constraints appeared first on Spiceworks.

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CIOs: 8 ways to trim IT budgets

Tech Republic Cloud

These eight areas will net fast budget reductions with minimal disruption to the business and headcount

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Here’s how IT budgets should fill cybersecurity moats in 2023

Tech Republic Security

TechRepublic speaks with Carlos Morales of Neustar Security Services on the best ways for companies to spend on cybersecurity — even if their budgets are tighter. The post Here’s how IT budgets should fill cybersecurity moats in 2023 appeared first on TechRepublic.

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CISO Budget Constraints Drive Consolidation of Security Tools

Information Week

The consolidation of security tools onto platforms may become a budgetary necessity but also offers opportunities for the highly fragmented nature of IT security

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Doing More With Less: How to Survive an IT Budget Cut

Information Week

When the budget axe swings, leaders, teams, and projects all feel the impact. Even if nothing can be done to slow the blow, it still may be possible to soften the impact

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Security Budgets In Asia Pacific, 2019

Forrester IT

It has taken me 15 months and a LOT of travel, listening and talking to feel confident enough to write this research for APAC. APAC is a unique region in its cultural, geographic, regulatory, security maturity and economic diversity. Writing anything ‘APAC’ related (at least for me) meant that I needed to understand the region […]. age of the customer Asia Pacific cybersecurity spend analysis

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IT Budgets in the Face of a Recession: How to Plan

Information Week

Planning an IT budget against the backdrop of a possible recession requires businesses to re-prioritize spending initiatives and closely monitor ROI

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With Tightening Budgets, It’s Time Get More Out Of Your Cloud Investment

IT Toolbox

Make your cloud investments work for you despite tight budgets. The post With Tightening Budgets, It’s Time Get More Out Of Your Cloud Investment appeared first on. Here’s how. Cloud Infrastructure

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Tech Companies Shift Training Budgets From R&D to Customer-Facing Roles

IT Toolbox

The post Tech Companies Shift Training Budgets From R&D to Customer-Facing Roles appeared first on Spiceworks With the risk of global recession, tech companies divert R&D expenses to customer-facing activities to drive business revenues in 2023.

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The Uses, Misuses, And Abuses Of Tech Spending And Budget Benchmarks

Forrester IT

Tech budget and spending benchmarks can be valuable, but only when used correctly. Learn how to get the most value from benchmarking. CIO insights Data Insights Information Technology

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How IT Budgets Must Adapt to Remote Work

Information Week

This will force CIOs to rethink technology and IT organizational structures, deployments -- and budget The pandemic has brought IT to an inflection point to where there is no turning back.

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How to handle cybersecurity amid a tight IT budget

Tech Republic Security

There are ways to maintain and even enhance your security posture even when your tech budget is under stress, according to Kaspersky

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Why IT Should Have a Separate Training Budget

Information Week

Having a training budget has its positives and negatives, but based on my experience, it's more beneficial for IT to fund and determine its own training needs

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3 Key Cloud Computing Trends to Consider When Planning Your IT Budget

Information Week

As remote and hybrid work rises in popularity, so will the adoption of technologies that prioritize agile, secure end-user computing

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Slowing Growth For US Tech Budgets In 2020 And 2021, Varying By Industry

Forrester IT

Slowing real GDP growth of 2% or less in turn will lead to slower growth of US tech budgets: from 4.5% in 2020 and 4% in 2021, according to Forrester’s latest US tech budget forecast: […].

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How to Maximize Your Organization's Cloud Budget

Information Week

Tired of sky-high cloud costs? Here are some suggestions for bringing your cloud spending back down to earth

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Securing the Hybrid Workforce: Can UK SMBs Kickstart Modernization with Limited Budgets?

IT Toolbox

Many SMBs in the UK struggle to secure their hybrid workforce due to limited budgets and a lack of understanding about available solutions. The post Securing the Hybrid Workforce: Can UK SMBs Kickstart Modernization with Limited Budgets?

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64% Of Marketers Say a Lack of Budget Is a Barrier to Personalization

IT Toolbox

The post 64% Of Marketers Say a Lack of Budget Is a Barrier to Personalization appeared first on. Personalization is crucial for brands to attract customers. Discover the findings from the study about where marketing personalization stands today.

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As The Dust Settles, What Will Budgets Look Like Post-Pandemic?

Forrester IT

As part of Forrester’s TIER series, we monitor market trends and analyze how these trends may effect IT budget strategy. Over the past few weeks, we looked into capex/opex trends leading up to, through, and out of the pandemic.

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Build Advocacy, Support And Budget For Your Zero Trust Vision

Forrester IT

My global collaboration with the Zero Trust guru, Chase Cunningham is finally live!!!! Driving any change in your organization, and getting support and advocacy for your security vision, is difficult and nuanced at the best of times.

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How to get the most bang for your buck out of your cybersecurity budget

Tech Republic Security

More than a quarter of executives surveyed by PwC expect double-digit growth in security budgets in 2022. The trick is to spend that money wisely and effectively

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Travel the world on a budget with help from TravelHacker

Tech Republic

The post Travel the world on a budget with help from TravelHacker appeared first on TechRepublic. This $40 travel app can help you save hundreds on flights. Mobile Software TravelHacker TravelHacker Premium

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Digital Media Spend Continues To Outreach Martech Budgets

Forrester IT

Every 18–24 months, I work with our dedicated forecast team to evaluate and size spend on digital marketing in the United States. In our most recent effort, “The US Digital Marketing Forecast, 2018 To 2023,” my forecast analyst colleague, Brandon Verblow, and I found that spend on search marketing, banner and outstream video, instream video, […

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Measures to boost digital economy announced in Malaysia budget 2017

Computer Weekly

Malaysia’s latest budget reflects the country’s aim to boost the digital economy

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Don't Let Your ITSM Platform Drain IT Budget and Resources

Information Week

(SPONSORED CONTENT) Complex, hard-to-use IT service management platforms can cost you valuable time, resources, and money. Consider these five questions when evaluating IT service management vendors

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