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Gene Spafford, director of Purdue University’s Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS), told an audience of IT security managers here at the Computer Security Institute (CSI) convention Tuesday that the computing industry is maturing just like many other established businesses and going through similar growing pains.

"We’re going through changes now," he said. "We’re going from the technological innovation and business innovation to a consumer and regulatory phase.