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AICPA Top Ten InfoSec List released

Information Security concerns topped the list in this year's survey of accounting professionals.

According to the article summarizing the survey, information security is the top technology concern, as is authentication:

Digital identity and authentication technologies - ways to ensure that users are who they say they are - moved up from the No. 8 slot last year to No. 6, while spyware detection and removal - technology for detecting and removing programs that gather and transmit user information without the user knowing - was a new topic to this year's list and finished in the No. 10 slot.

Here is the complete list:
AICPA's Top Ten Technologies 2006
1. Information security
2. Assurance and compliance applications
3. Disaster and business continuity planning
4. IT governance
5. Privacy management
6. Digital identity and authentication technologies
7. Wireless technologies
8. Application and data integration
9. Paperless digital technologies
10. Spyware detection and removal