RE: The State of Information Security, 2004 (survey)

["Robert Brewer" <fumanchu () amor org>]

Marcus J. Ranum wrote:
> Speaking of "Bad Surveys" here's a classic. This just came
> across the radar screen this evening....
>
> I've chopped huge hunks out and added my own snotty remarks
> inline to try to illustrate some of the things I was talking about
> in my rant last week.
>
> > The State of Information Security, 2004  
> > By Lorraine Cosgrove Ware 
> > Executive Summary 
> >
> > In terms of title, fifty-eight of the respondents held IT 
> > titles including CIO, vice president, director and manager,
> > and executives while 11% were information security
> > professionals. Fourteen percent of those surveyed held
> > CEO, CFO or non-IT director titles while17% listed "other." 
>
> This breakdown is also interesting!!
>
> In a paragraph above, the authors of the article write:
> "The results shown in this report are based on the responses of
> more than 8,000 CEOs, CFOs, CIOs, CSOs, vice presidents and 
> directors of IT and information security from 62 countries"
> Which sure makes it sound like the survey respondents were execs
> and bigwigs. But then in terms of title at the bottom they disclose
> that 58 out of the respondents held IT titles. In other words, 
> 0.7% (that's 7 in a thousand!) were CEOs, CFOs, CIOs, CSOs
> etc... -- a bit of a contradiction.

Not to take the wind out of your sails, but I think it's safe to assume
they meant 58 _percent_.

 58
+14
+11
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Robert Brewer
MIS
Amor Ministries
fumanchu () amor org
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