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IT Manager Concerns At Black Hat
David Utter
Staff Writer
2006-08-04
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Security firm Symantec, via Applied Research-West quizzed attendees of the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, and 400 respondents revealed their concerns about computer security.
Two-thirds of the respondents are most concerned with vulnerabilities with the Windows XP operating system. Mac users who have endured highly-publicized accounts of MacBook wireless security issues this week can take heart that only 12 percent of IT managers have worries about Mac OS X security.
Whenever Vista finds its way out of Redmond, there will be plenty of keen interest from independent security researchers; the survey noted more than half plan to review the new OS from Microsoft next year, assuming it is released.
The increasing number of web services has been paralleled by concern that they will become the hot security issue, closely followed by mobile technologies and VoIP.
Also, IT managers rated business systems, like databases and backup systems, as the area of most concern for the next year.
Though not covered in the Symantec survey, RSS technology has earned a place in the back of some minds. Vulnerabilities to injection attacks and the potential to hit thousands of user machines in one shot will need to be addressed by RSS proponents.
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David Utter is a business and technology writer for SecurityProNews and WebProNews.
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