Each year, Syncsort conducts a survey of IT professionals within the IBM i space to understand their top challenges, strategies, technologies, and best practices regarding the security of the platform and the business-critical applications and data that reside upon it.

It's not surprising that the "growing complexity of regulations" was ranked as the #1 security challenge for 42% of the respondents in the year ahead.

Read on to see the rest of the survey results including:

Security priorities and challenges for 2019
Reported breaches and whether survey respondents met their breach response metrics
Initiatives for strengthening security and achieving compliance in 2019