Are sophisticated attacks just FUD?

[Sam Heshbon <sheshbon () yahoo com>]

I had a big discussion with my boss who claims most of the IPS, SIM and other new tools are just a
hype protecting from sophisticated threats, which only exist in labs.
He thinks multi staged attacks and so on do not often happen in the wild and shows our firewall's
logs as evidence. It is true we see mostly worms.(NMAP) scanning happens once in a while, but he
claims it's a script kiddy and the fact we have never seen a breach means it is not a real threat
(we run a large network operation).
I'm looking for statistical data showing how frequent sophisticated attacks and advanced tools are
evolved and what there damage is to the corporate. If anyone knows of a research showing if this
is FUD or a real problem, I'd love to prove him wrong (I'm willing to admit I'd be happy to have
some new toys ;)



        
                
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