Making IT Infrastructure Decisions? Its still the economy stupid!!

From WIRED.COM - 2006 Article on information security by Bruce Schneier CTO of Counterpane Internet Security
"And economics has a lot to teach computer security. We generally think of computer security as a problem of technology, but often systems fail because of misplaced economic incentives: The people who could protect a system are not the ones who suffer the costs of failure."
" When you start looking, economic considerations are everywhere in computer security. Hospitals' medical-records systems provide comprehensive billing-management features for the administrators who specify them, but are not so good at protecting patients' privacy. ...... And one reason the internet is insecure is that liability for attacks is so diffuse."

In all of these examples, the economic considerations of security are more important than the technical considerations.