To remain relevant, IT managers need to wake up and admit they work in business, not IT, Gartner's leading analysts said at the keynote address at the Gartner Symposium in Sydney.
Gartner analysts predict that technology as a service (TaaS) will play a major role in future procurement, with its pay by use model set to cut user upfront costs and reduce vendor margins.
Security is in a "trough of complacency" in the boardroom but getting it back on the agenda depends on security officers taking a different approach -- evaluating the benefit of protecting against tomorrow's threats, not yesterday's, according to one analyst.
As employee-owned portable devices become more sophisticated they become less secure, according to one analyst -- and the more senior an employee, the less compliant they are when it comes to protecting the information on those devices.
Vendors are facing an uphill battle when competing for government tenders as bureaucratic and political obstacles continue to make the process more cumbersome than necessary, analysts believe.
We sat down with security analyst Andrew Walls at Gartner ITExpo and asked him how Web 2.0 affects application security. He talked to us about how traditional desktop security measures are falling short in a Web 2.0 world and how developers need to take more personal responsibility for the security of their code.
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