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Gartner Debunks Over-Hyped Security Threats

Posted by Zonk on from the mythbusting dept.

TPIRman writes "At Gartner's recent IT Security Summit, the research company's analysts identified five over-hyped security concerns. Among the supposed FUD are mobile malware, unsafe VoIP, and cracker-friendly wireless hotspots. Gartner, which has made a name for itself tracking hype, claims that irrational anxiety is holding back technologies that offer benefits greater than their security risks. A Techworld columnist argues, though, that Gartner is sending mixed messages."

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  1. "cracker-friendly wireless hotspots" ?? by RobotRunAmok · · Score: 5, Funny

    And the hotspots less sympathetic to our racist neighbors south of the Mason-Dixon line? These are somehow more secure?

    I'm so confused...

    1. Re:"cracker-friendly wireless hotspots" ?? by STrinity · · Score: 2, Funny

      Jimmy crack kernel and I don't care
      Jimmy crack kernel and I don't care,
      Jimmy crack kernel and I don't care,
      McAfee's gone away.

      --
      Les Miserables Volume 1 now up with my reading of
  2. Warhol by MECC · · Score: 4, Funny


    A "Warhol Worm" is a worm that infects all
    vulnerable machines on the Internet within 15 minutes.

    Warhol must be a new spelling for Windows...

    --
    "We are all geniuses when we dream"
    - E.M. Cioran
    1. Re:Warhol by CardiganKiller · · Score: 3, Funny

      Probably, they're both overhyped. Their aesthetics are similar. You take a good look at both of them and ask yourself, "Should I be enjoying this or something?".

      Bring it on Warhol fans.

  3. Re:Gartner, debunk yourself by goldspider · · Score: 2, Funny
    "If everyone waits for everyone else's opinion before they can make a decision, no wonder we have organizations with forms to change forms, where Dilbert stories are all true, and employees read Slashdot all day instead of working (because 50% of their projects won't go anywhere, and the other 50% of their projects are pending some approval process or another)."

    You work for the federal government too??

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    "Ask not what your country can do for you." --John F. Kennedy
  4. five under-hyped security concerns by gmuslera · · Score: 2, Funny
    1. Windows
    2. Microsoft Windows
    3. MS Windows
    4. Windows(tm)
    5. Windows family products
  5. Re:Trust Gartner? by XMyth · · Score: 2, Funny
    RTFC! He *DID* back it up.


    (Before I get modded troll, it really is true)
  6. Five reasons I'd love to work for Gartner by pdmoderator · · Score: 2, Funny
    1. I could buy an Armani suit and an MBA from a second-rate school and my customers would think that I posessed the Wisdom of the Ages.
    2. No obligation to actually know what I was talking about or even be consistent. I could say anything I want, say something completely contradictory in six months, and they still would think I posessed the Wisdom of the Ages.
    3. No messy problems of actually making stuff work.
    4. Stock manipulation.
    5. I wouldn't even have to think of five real reasons.