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."

Comments

"cracker-friendly wireless hotspots" ??

[RobotRunAmok]

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

I'm so confused...

Gartner, debunk yourself

[Gothmolly]

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.

Re:Trust Gartner?

[AnonymousKev]

I have to agree, Mr. Pants. My previous employer paid the Gartner Group to research a particular subject. Their report indicated that our product was the best possible way of doing business. The next round of brochures had "Gartner Group reports indicate ..." in big bold letters. Six months and $26 million later, the company was sold for pennies on the dollar. Not just a miss, but a miss-by-a-mile.

Since then, anytime I see "Gartner Group" in print, my brain replaces it with "information prostitutes".