IBM plans to begin releasing a monthly report of threats to computer networks in an effort to establish an indicator similar to the federal government’s Homeland Security Advisory System.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The report, to be named the Global Business Security Index, is intended to give computing managers early warning of a range of computer vulnerabilities like attacks by malicious hackers, automated softwares, viruses and worms, as well as to gauge the impact of political upheavals and natural disasters.<\/p>\n
The index will be generated from data gathered by 2,700 International Business Machines information security employees and a global network of about a half-million sensors – software programs and security hardware distributed to its customers and its own networks in 34 countries.<\/p>\n
The index will be released on I.B.M.’s Web site and will be part of a broader service known as the I.B.M. Security Threats and Attack Trends, or STAT, report, which the company offers customers at a cost of about $10,000 a year.<\/p>\n
That service is also produced by I.B.M.’s Security Intelligence Services, a group that is part of its managed computing services unit and is based on a corporate campus in Boulder, Colo.<\/p>\n
“We alert customers to trends,” said Alfred Huger, Symantec’s senior director. “The security landscape today is totally different,” said David Mackey, a former army intelligence analyst who now directs the company’s Security Intelligence Services.<\/p>\n
The I.B.M. security executives said they had also seen a 15 percent increase in the past month in the percentage of network attacks against critical infrastructure providers – computer network sites that government agencies and companies use to provide essential services.<\/p>\n
Industry analysts who track the computer security industry said reports like those provided by I.B.M. and Symantec were useful to corporations attempting to protect themselves from attacks over the Internet.<\/p>\n
“An early-warning-type system would be a benefit to an organization,” said Allan Carey, a senior research analyst for International Data Corporation, a research firm for the computer industry.<\/p>\n
“There is a time gap that occurs, and generally the awareness of a hole is made and all of a sudden it’s a rush against time to fix the hole,” said Gregg Mastoras, a senior security analyst at Sophos, an antivirus and antispam firm.<\/p>\n
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