After cyber attacks this year on Google, AT&T and others, experts at Wharton and in the IT industry say information security within organizations is increasingly becoming a concern to top managers and directors. As a result, more and more companies will be approaching information security risks in the same way they deal with other major threats, and in a much more integrated fashion. They may not have a choice, some observers note, given that 75% of organizations recently surveyed say they suffered a security breach in the past year.

Social networking tools such as Twitter and the emerging Google Wave web application are taking businesses to the frontiers of real-time communication and collaboration. The technology has the potential to make it easier to discover and share information and interact with others. But the key word is "potential." During a panel at the last Supernova technology strategy conference, experts talked about what makes the current crop of services more promising than those that came before, and the obstacles to further progress.