IT's 5 big security mistakes

Happy New Year, folks. As usual, the turn of the calendar has brought no shortage of articles predicting the future. That's all well and good, but it's a good idea to also take stock of where we are before we chart our course forward, so we can truly improve things for the future.

You see, one of my pet peeves with our industry is how abysmal we tend to be at learning from our mistakes. Rather than blithely charging forward only to repeat those mistakes, let's study them and learn from them a bit first.

With that, here are a few things (in no particular order) where we are making some really big mistakes. These are, in my view, some of the real fundamental causes of the biggest problems we're dealing with today -- and into the future, no doubt.