Category: Statistics

http://www.cio-today.com/story.xhtml?story_id=132004JTMOEO

While Cisco has been marketing firewall technologies and other network-oriented security tools for almost a decade, Microsoft has only entered the applications market in the last year with several stand-alone products. The software giant is further expected to have an effect on the anti-virus market with the launch of its next-generation Windows operating system, known as Vista, scheduled to arrive sometime in 2007.
Rival Juniper Networks ranked second for such investments, far behind Cisco, with only four of the CSOs mentioning the company.

In a surprisingly good showing among applications vendors, Microsoft dwarfed other providers including anti-virus market leader Symantec in the report. Some 68 percent of those involved in the research said they currently use security software from Microsoft, while only 26 percent said they are using Symantec’s tools. Of those interviewed, 36 percent said they would prefer to work with one primary security software vendor, versus the 34 percent that indicated they would not want to consolidate security relationships, with 44 percent of those favoring the integrated approach listing Microsoft as their preferred provider.

Some 40 percent of the executives interviewed for the study said that they are currently evaluating applications-specific security measures. Of those executives, 62 percent said that they are somewhat likely to deploy applications-level security this year, with another 36 percent saying that they are either very likely or certain to do so.

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1963992,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594

Seventy-eight were assigned to detectives, and 16 of those have been solved, police said. Its continuous – and that’s just the people that reported it,” Capt.

John Houston said, explaining the department has a backlog of reports and the number of cases could be even higher. Houston oversees 40 officers in the Criminal Investigations Division. Now five of the 40 officers in the division work on financial theft cases.

Many victims don’t realize their lives have been violated until months after the crime is committed, police say.

http://www.crime-research.org/news/05.16.2006/2000/

We’ve known for a while that meeting regulations (e.g. Sarbanes-Oxley and HIPAA) can be financially draining on enterprises, but the Getronics survey calls attention to underlying security issues.
IT organizations are limited in what they can achieve, and too much compliance work can take away resources from mission of securing the enterprise.

Goodall points out that the money is coming from across several departments, indicating that IT security is not seen as only an IT issue.

http://www.line56.com/articles/default.asp?ArticleID=7592

Until now Netsky has remained in the number one spot, demonstrating as SoftScan pointed out in February that users need to check and clean their machines, since the high percentage rate is not down to new infections. However financial motivation has once again proved too much temptation for hackers and phishing is now in the number spot.

Viruses accounted for 0.55% of all email traffic in April. The top five virus families for April were:

1 phishing 42.60%
2 netsky 28.49%
3 mytob 13.24%
4 html.iframe 5.00%
5 nyrem 4.57%

http://www.net4now.com/isp_news/news_article.asp?News_ID=3561

Kelly Schupp, director of Security Market Solutions at Micromuse, said that firms run greater risks if they rely on a single security officer to manage these issues – as security managers are in high demand and may leave, taking their knowledge with them.

http://www.net-security.org/goto.php?cat=1&id=11021