Gartner on over-hyped hype
p2pnet.net News:- Who loves e-viruses? Security firms, for obvious reasons. And media outlets because they generate headlines.
But e-bugs aren’t all computer users have to worry about.
There’s the fear of mobile malware, of “unsafe” VoIP, “the equation of regulatory compliance with security” and, the threat of a voracious, fast spreading superworm, says PC World, quoting the Gartner research firm.
But it also attributes to the company the observation that a number of the most promoted security risks are “nothing more than a load of hype”.
Coincidentally, on its web page, Gartner hypes a raft of reports called Technology Hype Cycles, “a checklist of technologies that may be relevant to your future business processes or IT infrastructure”?
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See:-
PC World – Oversold Security Threats? June 9, 2005
June 11th, 2005 at 2:08 pm
Gartner is full of it and they don’t know tech from toilet paper
see
http://www.groklaw.net/search.php?query=gartner&keyType=phrase&datestart=&dateend=&topic=0&type=all&author=0&mode=search
for a taste of their idiocy.