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We as a nation -- and each CEO as the individual custodian of a business enterprise -- are going to have to rethink how we define "secure." On most planets there is no way anybody would consider him or herself safe if the average evil-doer could penetrate a defense simply by walking around it. Nevertheless, that is precisely the situation when it comes to cybersecurity.
The move to the cloud, SaaS applications, and even infrastructure is changing corporate IT. Much of the transactional work will be gone forever. There are impacts on the nature and the size of IT staffing. The walls of the enterprise have been breached, and new offerings may level them totally, spreading the net of providers well outside the boundaries of the traditional enterprise.
If you follow CBR regularly, you know that we publish several types of issues. Some are completely "out there," addressing trends that are just shaping up on the horizon (e.g., digital data genesis). Other issues are survey-based and focus on established trends that are still surrounded by considerable uncertainty.
SURVEY DEMOGRAPHICS
This survey examined how organizations perceive and are using tablet devices. Sixty-two percent of the 103 respondents come from organizations headquartered or based in North America, 16% from organizations in Australia/Pacific, 11% from organizations in Europe, 3% from organizations in Asia, and the remainder from organizations in other regions.
This is my fifth contribution to CBR, and it was by far the most difficult survey to prepare. Not the survey itself -- the questions that my coauthors and I believe to be interesting and important were obvious to us, and we had no problems harmonizing our thoughts and quickly arriving at a finished product. So what was the struggle? Defining "the tablet."
At the very end of the movie The Terminator, Sarah Conner, future heroine of the human race, fills her car with gas at some "out in the middle of nowhere" service station. She knows how the next decades will roll out for the world; she has seen what lies ahead. As the gas tank fills, a man nearby speaks something in Spanish. Sarah then asks the station attendant, "What did he say?"
