Infosec top influencer in next decade

"In your opinion, which ONE of these emerging trends will most influence business computing the remainder of this decade?"

This was one of five questions asked in a survey between August 4 and 15, 2005 with 444 pre-registered attendees for IBM's SHARE User Event in Boston (August 22-26). Information security is the dominant emerging trend most likely to affect business computing over the next five years, according to 31% of those answering the Share survey. Two other significant trends identified in the poll are the shortage of qualified enterprise-class IT professionals (cited by 17% of respondents) and the outsourcing or offshoring of application development and maintenance (14%).