A study from two business school professors offers some early insight. The direction of the findings won’t be a major surprise, but numbers always make a good talking point. Based on five years’ worth of data on security incidents from Federal Information Security Management Act reports, spending data from the IT Dashboard, federal human capital data and other sources, it appears that agencies can expect a 5 percent decrease in the number of security breaches for every 1 percent in funding that moves from O&M to DME or to managed services.
The data also suggests that agencies with geographically far-flung operations experience fewer breaches than those with a large primary footprint.
