IDG Contributor Network: Does security knowledge make you comfortable or more paranoid?
With security, the more you know, the more comfortable you are — to a point. This is not to suggest that seasoned security pros trust that most security technology (as deployed) is secure. On the contrary, they typically do not. But they have a realistic sense of the overall security picture, knowing that nothing is ever impregnable and that as long as the security approach used is better than most alternatives, that's a pragmatic and comfortable way to go.
What brings this to mind is a report released last week from Deloitte examining quite a few mobile issues. Between the healthy number of participants (49,500 respondents across 31 countries) and the historically high quality of Deloitte reports, this is one of the more exhaustive recent reports on mobile. Note: The Deloitte report was a refreshing change of pace from the mountain of vendor-created research reports, which typically are thinly veiled attempts to answer every question with variations of "and that's why you should send us large checks."
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