IT departments risk losing responsibility

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The ITdepartment to the compliance

Large businesses are transferring responsibility for computer security away from the ITdepartment to the compliance and risk department.

The opportunity that the Blackberry service could fail is one of the significant risks facingbusinesses this year, according to technology by the Corporate Executive Board.

Although organisations are trialling iPhones and other smartphones as an alternative to theBlackberry, they are far from prepared for a rapid switchover, the CEB said.

The CEB predicts that IT

The CEB predicts that IT and IT security will become increasingly decoupled as technologybecomes more commoditised and more systems are outsourced to the cloud.

Businesses are placing more emphasis on enterprise risk management, and there is a growingrealisation that information security is about the wider business, not just about protectingservers, said Bergsman.