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Gartner analysts said, 20 percent of enterprises will experience a serious (beyond virus) Internet security incident. These crimes are targeting information and intellectual property. While the majority of enterprises will not face such an attack, companies must still take the proper precautions. Being a victim of one of these security incidents could be much more costly for enterprises if they don't protect themselves.

"It takes only one unsecured machine on a network to create potential risk for everyone else," said Richard Hunter, vice president and Gartner Fellow. "The risks and the costs of defenses are high, and the trend is moving both upward."

Gartner's assessment is that, at its highest level within the enterprise, information security's top vulnerabilities are:

- Fundamentally insecure commercial software
- An inadequate patch update model
- Misguided users who believe crime happens to "someone else"

While companies try to address those security issues, a number of new technologies will add to their challenges. Web services will produce discontinuities in new application security. Unsecured wireless LANs represent a serious point of potential failure for enterprise networks, and instant messaging is creating worrisome holes.

"As enterprises turn their collective attention away from tactical security issues stemming from homeland security initiatives and back to infrastructure security, they will witness an evolution from after-the-fact improvements to more secure and thus more expensive products," said Victor S. Wheatman, managing vice president for Gartner.

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