Security News > 2020 > August > How the pandemic and remote work initiatives forced organizations to change IT priorities
The IT skills shortage has forced 31% of organizations to prioritize investment in much-needed IT staff education, up from 19% pre-pandemic.
Data and network security were tied as the enterprise's No. 1 priority: 76% of organizations named it as one of their most important IT projects for the rest of 2020, and the report credits "The rapidly growing remote workforce" for the renewed push for more robust IT departments.
Of the organizations with 5,000 to 10,000 employees, 67% plan to invest in employee security awareness, double from last year, 33%. Meanwhile, 85% of financial organizations consider data security a priority.
Only 31% of financial organizations plan to focus on data privacy, even though 65% named it as a core priority before the pandemic.
33% of organizations with more than 50,000 employees plan to work on cloud migration tasks.