Analysts Report: In his first From the Analysts column, David Margulius takes on Gartner’s recent assessment of how banks could better prevent check-account hijacking, and lambastes the analyst firm for “fancy talk” that can obscure the real issues. Security: Roger Grimes proposes a different type of obscurity and suggests that security experts and customers alike should consider security by obscurity as a sound defense technique. Before you scoff, it’s not the only practice he proposes. Grimes also says he’ll eat his lunch in the pool. But don’t hold that against him either. From the feature well: Can a company be agile and be surprised at the same time? No, at least according to Dr. Jody Porrazzo, director of econometric risk strategy at Apex Management Group. In Seeing the future with BI, Porazzo and others discuss what writer Jeff Angus calls “the new business intelligence.” And it’s not as far off into the future as that might sound. The news beat: Sun plans to pull all its open source efforts into a single silo, a new IE flaw could affect Visual Studio and Office, and Microsoft combines .Net assemblies. Best of the blogs: Cathleen Moore went to the Blog Business Summit and collected tips on driving traffic to your blog. Notes from the field: Robert X. Cringely uncovers that Google earns publishers’ ire, ZoneAlarm catches fire, all while undergoing a reverse metamorphosis of sorts. Technology Industry