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IT security, mobile security, NAC or network access control, all continue to be major issues, despite predictions to the contrary. Security vendors and analysts have been accused of stoking fears with their predictions of future threats because not all of them have been borne out, but NAC, mobile security and IT security in general continue to raise concerns. Hindsight, however, is 20/20, so we at eWEEK are taking a look at some popular security predictions from the past few years that have not panned out.

IT Security Is Dead—and Other
Security Predictions That Bombed

Security vendors and analysts are fond of predicting the latest threats and the future of new technologies, but hindsight is perfect and foresight is less so. With that in mind, here is some hindsight applied to some of the security predictions of the last few years.

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