Re: Education sector most affected by malware

[Joel Rosenblatt <joel () COLUMBIA EDU>]

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 industry
>
> We'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.gpg        



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