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Gartner Debunks Over-Hyped Security Threats
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."
From the department of wishful thinking:
Gartner, please debunk yourself as anything other than a PHB-opinion-bolstering old boys club. I battle the Powers That Be here constantly - any proposal is met with "well what does Gartner say about it?". Take your magic quadrant, and... well, you know.
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).
Gartner is just a multiplicity of Dvoraks, all groupthinking what the Next Big Thing is.
I want to delete my account but Slashdot doesn't allow it.
I did not RTA, but it seems to me that your degree of paranoia should be relative to the importance of what you're protecting.
For instance, I don't use wireless on my work network because I have a lot of confidential client information to protect. But at home I like the convenience of being able to roam the house and yard.
Over-hyped? Garntner makes their living on hype generation. This is just another attempt at getting more people to subscribe to Gartner reports.
I guess this is the definition of overhyped?
to what Gartner is saying. I have worked in the IT security arena now for almost 5 years and I have noticed this very thing. Security companies, almost without exception, hype the threats to sell their wares. They sell wolf tickets at extremely high prices when 98% of all threats can be mitigated by using good processes and common sense. Remember what Bruce Schneier keeps harping on is true: SECURITY IS A PROCESS, NOT A PRODUCT. Until people get this mantra embedded in their thick skulls, they will continue to be duped by security vendors and their own fears.
Common sense is, unfortunately, not that common. Defense in depth security measures can be achived without spending a lot of money. BUT... your best security is useless if the people behind it are lacking in common sense.