Welcome to Security in 2020–Read It Now or Wait 7 Years to See It

Historical Archive Note: This post was originally published on the Gartner Blog Network on June 7, 2013 by Anton Chuvakin.
Original URL: http://blogs.gartner.com/anton-chuvakin/2013/06/07/welcome-to-security-in-2020read-it-now-or-wait-7-years-to-see-it/ | Archive.org Snapshot

Want to go to the future, 2020 to be exact, and learn how information security is done there? Here is your chance – this bundle of papers describes Gartner Security 2020  planning scenarios and recommendations that stem from them.

• “Long-Range Planning Guidance for Information Security and Risk Management: Gartner’s Security 2020 Scenario” (the overview of the entire research paper series about security in the world of 2020)
• “Security and Risk Management Scenario Planning, 2020”  (the description of forces affecting security and four future scenarios for the development of information security)
• “Prevention Is Futile in 2020: Protect Information Via Pervasive Monitoring and Collective Intelligence” (my favorite paper from this set, naturally!)
• “Four Strategies for Optimizing Your Security Controls in Future Scenarios” (a useful set of long-term security strategies for dealing with the world evolving based on the scenarios)
• “Expand Business Continuity Management Efforts to Deal With the ‘Coalition Rule’ Scenario”  (an interesting set of recommendation for a scenario where Internet is not government at all)
• "Meeting the Information Needs of the Chief Risk Officer in 2023”  (just a fun add-on to this list about the role of a CRO of 2023)

Finally, it needs to be said:

• Do we expect to be 100% correct in regards to all the details, while describing the world of 2020 from 2013? No, of course not.
• Do we expect these papers to be very useful? Yes, most definitely!!

(and, yes, this is available to Gartner client only, sorry!)