Security is a balancing act

CIOs are pressured from all sides and that's not likely to change: more and more states are requiring that organizations disclose when they have experienced data leaks, making their efforts to pinpoint those leaks immediately critical. At the same time, CIOs must continue to find ways to fend off increasingly sophisticated types of spam, phishing attacks and other malicious attempts to gain entry into corporate systems--while incorporating newer, hacker-prone technologies like Voice over IP (VoIP). Help is on the way, in the form of an array of 802.11-based standards, but even that won't be enough.

For more about balancing risk against opportunity:
- read this CIO Today article [1]