Analysts at Gartner have identified five IT risks they believe are being wildly overblown in the industry, and urge companies not to hold back IT expansion plans.

Most of the points centre around burgeoning new industries. Internet telephony is picked out as being tainted with the notion that it is simply unsafe. But, says Gartner, the same security measures can be used to protect a VoIP deployment as for any data network. The danger of eavesdropping a VoIP call is as low as that of eavesdropping any other data packet on the network.

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