As prime minister, he has edged out the old security chiefs who owed their loyalty to Yasser Arafat's Fatah, an armed nationalist faction that hitherto ran the PA. Underpinning Mr Fayyad's rule is a Palestinian security corps, freshly trained by the Americans, with scant allegiance to Fatah's old guard.

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This shift, however, wields a double-edged sword: while enjoying the freedom to adopt technologies of their choosing, few employees grasp the security, regulatory, scalability, integration and other risks and costs these new tools create.

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