The Most Secure Companies Spend The Least?

iPodBoy writes "The Reg has an interesting article with some choice quotes from Gartner, showing that the most secure organisations spend less than the average and that the lowest spending organisations are the most secure. Gartner also had a choice quote for Microsoft, describing Windows as 'the biggest beta test in history,' and warned warned IT security pros not to expect too much from Microsoft's vaunted Trustworthy Computing initiative."

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[richie2000]

It's amazing the level of clueness (it's a word, I tell you!) they seem to possess over at Gartner. No, really. If you don't read the article, at least read this bit:

Gartner has identified IT security technologies enterprises will need over the next five years - and other technologies most companies probably won't need. On the enterprise shopping list is host-based intrusion prevention, identity management, 802.1X authentication and gateway spam and AV scanning. Security technologies Gartner reckons most companies can safely do without include personal digital signatures, biometrics, enterprise digital rights management and 500-page security policies.

Their stab at Microsoft is par for the course, but this is just beautiful. :-)