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Security tops 2005 CIO Agenda

But RFID and wireless remain "over-hyped"…

By Andy McCue

Published: 14 December 2004 16:20 GMT

The UK's IT bosses have put security technologies at the top of their shopping lists for 2005 while dismissing trends such as RFID as "over-hyped".

The results are revealed in a CIO Agenda poll of silicon.com's CIO Jury, which looks at the main issues facing the UK's IT chiefs in 2005.

Email security, anti-spam, monitoring and antivirus topped the list of areas that CIOs will be focusing on in 2005, closely followed by IT governance, desktop hardware, PDAs and web services.

Outsourcing remains high on the agenda and newer technologies such as VoIP are on the list for 2005 but other technology trends were dismissed as being IT industry-driven and not yet ready for mainstream enterprise deployment.

Mobile and wireless working is "destined to limp along" for a few more years yet, according to Les Boggia, head of IT at insurance firm Carole Nash. Others rounded on RFID, with Phil Young, head of IT operations at Amtrak, calling the tracking tag technology "a turkey" because of a lack of standards.

Find out which technologies are hot and which are not in the full analysis of our CIO Agenda panel's spending plans for 2005.

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