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According to market analysts at Gartner, we are about to enter a brand new age of computer security. The company predicts that the third phase for the security market will integrate security into each new wave of technology as it enters the market, and not, as in its current phase, after the security attack has occurred.

Gartner believes that the current phase in security has fallen behind IT trends allowing hackers and cyber criminals too much room to exploit vulnerabilities. This has forced many security firms to react to each new threat and always playing catch-up.

John Pescatore, a vice president at Gartner, was quoted saying at OneStopClick, "This next phase of security is about building security in as the users' needs more forward, not chasing them."

While this certainly sounds good, to me it sounds a little too good to be true. The fact is, in this constantly changing security war (and it is a war), those who create computer security products aren't the only side with a say in the matter. Hackers and cyber criminals get their say as well, and they don't always follow a predictive pattern. And don't hackers, at least the successful ones, already take security into account and work tirelessly to circumvent it.

In an ideal world all software would come entirely hacker-free, but my sense tells me that with any semi-open system, sometimes the security will be ahead to the hackers, and other times the hackers will be ahead of us. Certainly, with Microsoft's new Vista, security will be much more at the forefront of new software, but in my experience, never discount the ingenuity of hackers.

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