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Gartner: Top 10 strategic predictions that could shake up IT

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ORLANDO– The robots decidedly have it. They will help run businesses, make decisions for you and maybe even be your boss.

Those were just some of the predictions put forth by Gartner vice president Daryl Plummer at the consultancy’s always interesting prediction of future IT technology directions.

+More on Network World: Gartner: IT should simplify security to fight inescapable hackers+

“Robots are beginning to rise – don’t think Terminator robots – but smart robots that will have the ability to learn things better, faster,” Plummer

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Gartner: Sony breach is a new breed of attack that needs new responses

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The big lessons from the Sony breach are that businesses need better planning and to shift security investment away from trying to protect the network from attacks and toward quickly detecting and dealing with breaches, Gartner says.

That means hiring staff to deal specifically with that type of exploit, which Gartner gives a new name: aggressive cybersecurity business disruption attacks.

+[Also on Network World: U.S. on Sony breach: North Korea did it; Worst security breaches of the year 2014: Sony tops the list]+

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Gartner: Makers of things for Internet of Things undervalue security

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As the Internet of Things develops, most vendors that are making these things don’t make security their top priority, allowing business considerations to take precedent, according to a Gartner expert.

“Some of the leading vendors that are developing products are making some effort to address security concerns, but Gartner believes the majority aren’t at this stage — convenience, user friendliness, time-to-market all win out over security at this point,” says Earl Perkins, a research vice president at Gartner.

+ ALSO ON NETWORK WORLD The security implications of IoT: A roundtable discussion with four experts +

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Network World Tim Greene

Gartner: ‘Five Styles of Advanced Threat Defense’ can protect enterprise from … – IDG News Service

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Gartner: 'Five Styles of Advanced Threat Defense' can protect enterprise from …
IDG News Service
Style 1 Use Network Traffic Analysis techniques to establish baselines of normal traffic patterns, (for example anomalous DNS traffic could indicate botnet traffic) and highlight anomalous patterns that represent a compromised environment. This …

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