in the adventures of an it leader chapter, it priorities: prioritizing among a portfolio of investments, one of the main reasons stated in the case that the current CIOs (barton) predecessor was unable to get the IT security project funded was because:

- senior management did not take cyber security seriously

- the IT staff explained the need in "techie" jargon rather than in business terms that the executive team could understand

- there was a lack of available technical expertise in-house

- IVK lacked the financial resources to fund the security project

- IT could not effectively define the technical scope of the security upgrade project