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There's been some discussion in the blogosphere over whether or not security will become the main focus of IT in 2008, at least according to an article at Network World. If that is true, and security actually does come to dominate IT, then I have to say that would truly be the death knoll of tech itself. Or, in other worlds, that ain't gonna happen.

I mean, when buying a car, while there are a lot of cars that highlight their safety features, you still don't buy a car because of the seatbelts. Like the evening news says, "if it bleeds, it leads," and security just so happens to be the part of IT that bleeds, although it's often corporations doing the data-bleeding.

So of course security is important, because without it, IT wouldn't exist, but if security really was the most important factor in IT, than you would expect companies just to start shutting down their systems altogether and go back to typewriters, intercoms, and leisure suits.

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