When it comes to security, it’s planning and execution - not the size of the budget - that matter.

With the U.S. economy showing the barest signs of recovering from the recession, the consensus among economists is for a very flat recovery to continue through 2011. For IT security staff, that means tight IT budgets and flat spending, at best.

So how do businesses get the most out of security budgets that are already strained? Threatpost asked a handful of industry experts and IT security leaders for their advice on stretching the IT security dollar in 2011 and beyond.

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