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Re: Education sector most affected by malware
From: Joel Rosenblatt <joel () COLUMBIA EDU>
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2010 14:15:49 -0400
So, your NAC will tell you that the Trend product that didn't stop the malware from getting installed is working :-) Joel --On Wednesday, October 06, 2010 8:18 AM -0700 Christopher Jones <Christopher.Jones () ufv ca> wrote:
Vendor supplied stats are always suspect. But even if you divided them in half, the numbers are still scary. Here's another good reason to implement a NAC solution. My 2.0 cents Christopher Regards, Christopher Jones IT Security Administrator Information Technology Services University of the Fraser Valley 33844 King Road Abbotsford, BC V2S 7M8 604.854.4566 Christopher.Jones () ufv caJoel Rosenblatt <joel () COLUMBIA EDU> 10/06/2010 8:01 AM >>>Not that I don't believe them, but I am always suspect of statements made by vendors - the assumption made is that they represent enough of the total AV business that they can state unequivocally that .edu owns 44% of the malware may or may not be true - I know that, for one, we do not use their product, and from a Gartner report I found, they had about 14% of the total AV market in 2005 <http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=493858>, so, if we say that their share has increased to, lets say, 20% since then, we are really talking about 44% of 20% ... I always look at the source of these numbers .. the saying is, there are lies, damned lies, and statistics. My 2 cents Joel --On Wednesday, October 06, 2010 10:02 AM -0400 Matthew Gracie <graciem () CANISIUS EDU> wrote:DiGrazia, Mick A wrote:Education owns 44% of malware infections by industryWe're number one! Woo-hoo! As the article points out, this is at least partially attributable to student-owned machines, which are not secured in any meaningful way by education IT staff. The remarkably permissive model that's usually applied to college-owned machines probably doesn't help, either. -- Matt Gracie (716) 888-8378 Information Security Administrator graciem () canisius edu Canisius College ITS Buffalo, NY http://www2.canisius.edu/~graciem/graciem_public_key.gpgJoel Rosenblatt, Manager Network & Computer Security Columbia Information Security Office (CISO) Columbia University, 612 W 115th Street, NY, NY 10025 / 212 854 3033 http://www.columbia.edu/~joel
Joel Rosenblatt, Manager Network & Computer Security Columbia Information Security Office (CISO) Columbia University, 612 W 115th Street, NY, NY 10025 / 212 854 3033 http://www.columbia.edu/~joel
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- Education sector most affected by malware DiGrazia, Mick A (Oct 06)
- Re: Education sector most affected by malware Valdis Kletnieks (Oct 06)
- Re: Education sector most affected by malware Harvard Townsend (Oct 06)
- Re: Education sector most affected by malware Tom Talley (Oct 06)
- Re: Education sector most affected by malware Tom Talley (Oct 06)
- Re: Education sector most affected by malware Harvard Townsend (Oct 06)
- Re: Education sector most affected by malware Matthew Gracie (Oct 06)
- Re: Education sector most affected by malware Joel Rosenblatt (Oct 06)
- Re: Education sector most affected by malware Christopher Jones (Oct 06)
- Re: Education sector most affected by malware Joel Rosenblatt (Oct 06)
- Re: Education sector most affected by malware Joel Rosenblatt (Oct 06)
- Re: Education sector most affected by malware Valdis Kletnieks (Oct 06)
- Re: Education sector most affected by malware Ness, Carl J (Oct 06)
- Re: Education sector most affected by malware Roger Safian (Oct 06)
- Re: Education sector most affected by malware DiGrazia, Mick A (Oct 07)
- Re: Education sector most affected by malware Doty, Timothy T. (Oct 07)
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- Re: Education sector most affected by malware Roger Safian (Oct 07)
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