This is the key question for banking/security leaders at the dawn of 2010. Emerging from a year in which financial institutions struggled with the economy, the Heartland Payment Systems breach and other attacks, as well as the ongoing challenges to attain regulatory compliance and retain customer confidence ... now is the time for leaders to invest in banking's future.

• What are institutions' spending priorities?
• How well equipped are they to defend against fraud?
• What is the potential impact of regulatory reform on information security?
• How will institutions invest in social networking and other new services?

These are among the questions to be explored in the Banking Information Security Today survey.