Who does the best job of protecting data on computers?
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RISKS OF DOING E-BUSINESS
The threat from computer crimes and other online security breaches has barely slowed, never mind stopped, according to a recent survey of 538 security professionals in U.S. corporations that was conducted by the Computer Security Institute and the FBI's Computer Intrusion Squad.
Reported breaches in the past six months 85%
Reported financial losses in the past six months 64%
Could quantify financial losses 35%
TOTAL QUANTIFIABLE LOSSES
Year 2000 (265,589,940)
Year 2001 (projected) (377,828,700)
TYPES OF QUANIFIABLE LOSS
Theft of proprietary information $151.2M
Fraud $92.9M
ATTACKS REPORTED TO LAW ENFORCEMENT
Year 2000 25%
Year 2001 (projected) 36%
ATTACKS ON THE RISE
Source: Computer Security Institute/FBI Computer Intrusion Squad, Washington; survey of 538 IT security professionals
NET INTRUSIONS COST BILLIONS
Though the cost of intrusions is high, many companies still haven't devoted many resources to protecting themselves.
Total annual cost of online security breaches to corporations
$15B
Percentage of companies that have yet to implement adequate security
30%
Percentage of companies that spend 5% or less of their IT budget on security for their networks
Who does the best job of protecting data on computers?
Source: Information Technology Association of America, Arlington, Va.
Only 0.4% of a company's revenue, on average, is dedicated to information security in the U.S. By 2011, however, that figure will accelerate tenfold to 4% of revenue for U.S. companies, according to Gartner Inc.'s total cost of ownership model for information security.
U.S. INCIDENT RESPONSE SERVICES EXPENDITURES BY SERVICE ACTIVITY
Key findings include the fact that services will experience growth respective to the number of cyberattacks, and security breaches and individual service activity spending over time will increase or decrease at varying rates, according to incident severity and frequency.
Downtime From Viruses
Judging by server downtime, which increased substantially from 1999, viruses are starting to take their toll on network performance:
Top 10 Viruses
The most active viruses in the past four weeks, according to MessageLabs Ltd., a U.K.-based virus-detection agency:
Number of Virus Detections in the Past Four Weeks
E-Mail Flu Season
The following graph plots the ratio of viruses to e-mail during the past 12 months. You can see that the ratio varies from one virus in every 1,400 e-mails in September 2000 to one in every 400 in May 2001.
Ratio of Viruses to E-mail From July '00 to June '01
