The coming year isn’t likely to see any major advances in security technology, experts say. Instead, 2004 will be all about evolutionary improvement, end user education and making the best use of the tools we have. Security experts agree that the bulk of all attacks take advantage of vulnerabilities for which there are already solutions, either through patches or configuration changes. Many companies have discovered to their dismay that a patch designed to fix a hole may create more problems by bringing down previously stable systems or introducing new vulnerabilities.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2116374/information-security-predictions-in-2004.html