In December 2019, I wrote a blog recommending CIOs and CISOs review their annual budgets in 2020 and continue to reduce their spend on legacy appliance-based network and security controls with a move to a scalable and future-proof cloud-based architecture.
In the past few months since then, the world has changed. Budgets are now further under the spotlight with non-essential projects being postponed, emergency budgets for pandemic response to maintain BAU and support a remote workforce applied (and is some cases budget “borrowed” from 2021), and budgets for 2021