Information security costs rising.

• Position: INFO SECURITY - Brief article

Look for worldwide spending on information security to reach $71.1 billion this year, Gartner advised; that's an increase of about 8% over 2013. It's expected to increase another 8% in 2015. Gartner's latest research indicated that data loss prevention is the fastest growing segment.

According to the research analysts, the increasing adoption of mobile, cloud, and social [computing] (often interacting) will drive the use of new security technology and services through 2016.

Gartner Research Director Lawrence Pingree said the bigger trend that emerged in 2013 was the democratization of security threats, driven by the easy availability of malicious software (malware) and infrastructure (via the underground economy) that can be used to...