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Not all agree on 'overhyped' security threats

Grant Gross writes for NetworkWorld:

Two Gartner analysts released their list of the five most overhyped IT security threats, with IP telephony and malware for mobile devices making the list, but not all IT security vendors agreed with the analysts' assessment.

Lawrence Orans, principal analyst at Gartner, and John Pescatore, vice president and Gartner fellow, noted that while attacks on IP telephony and mobile devices may come eventually, current warnings about security problems are ahead of actual attacks.

Not everyone agreed with Gartner's assessment, however. Companies deploying IP telephony or voice-over-IP services do need to pay attention to security, and users of IP telephony need to protect not only the end-device phones and IP servers, but also signaling and other voice equipment, said Stan Quintana, vice president of managed security services for AT&T. "It's a slightly different, more complex equation than data networks," he said.

posted by Fergie @ 6/10/2005 02:35:00 PM