Security News > 2021 > November > Mid-market IT leadership top 2022 objective: Strengthening security

The UK's mid-market IT leadership expects to see a shortfall in IT spend in 2022, a Node4 report reveals.

The report indicates that increasing and strengthening security is by far the most important IT objective for mid-market IT decision-makers, with 32% planning to prioritise IT security in 2022.

Managing compliance to become more complicated in 2022.

Looking beyond security, 83% of respondents think that managing compliance will become more complicated in 2022.

With managed services helping to fill important expertise gaps during their cloud transformation journey, mid-market companies plan to increase investment in public cloud, private cloud, and colocation in 2022.

"Adoption of cloud and managed services offer a way to navigate this complex set of issues - with most mid-market organizations choosing a hybrid cloud infrastructure as their preferred cloud transformation strategy."

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