Case study: Security on a shoestring budget

http://www.csoonline.com/article/691487/case-study-security-on-a-shoestring-budget

By Joan Goodchild
Senior Editor
CSO
October 11, 2011

According to figures released recently by Kaspersky Lab, 1300 IT pros 
were asked about IT risks and security spending. Among large companies, 
the average security budget is $3.35 million, according to Kaspersky's 
data.

To Michael Dent, CISO of Fairfax County Government in Virginia, this 
sounds like an incredibly huge amount of money. After all, he wanted to 
start his security program with just over $1 million. What he got was 
about one-quarter of that request.

Dent took on his current role as CISO with Fairfax County in 2002 after 
creating and managing the security program for the Virginia Department 
of Corrections information technology department. His goal was to 
establish an enterprise IT security program, something that was lacking 
before he came on board. He recently spoke with CSO about how he managed 
to get a program off the ground with a very small level of funding, and 
how he turned his efforts into a chance to earn management's respect—and 
more financial support for security in the future.

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