Posted on Friday, January 5th, 2007 at 2:15 pm
- Almost 40% of respondents to the CSI/FBI 2006 Computer Crime and Security Survey attribute 20% or more of losses to insiders threats.
- Unauthorized access to information was the second most expensive type of loss accounting for more than $10,000,000 in 2006.
- E-mail monitoring and web activity monitoring were employed by 61% of respondents to evaluate the effectiveness of security measures taken.
- 48% did not report a security breach or intrusion to law enforcement to avoid negative publicity.
- 73% identified the most critical computer security issue was data protection (e.g., data classification, identification and encryption) and application software vulnerability security followed by Policy and regulatory compliance, 63%, and identity thet and leakage of private information at 58%.
