Tech, Media, Telco Companies Stink At Security

["Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Via Security Pro News.

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The Deloitte survey of technology, media, and telecommunication companies
around the world found a distressing mix of overconfidence and
underpreparedness for disaster.

And here you thought it was just the New England Patriots showing those
tendencies in the Super Bowl.

In the survey, Deloitte found 46 percent of companies did not have any
formal information security strategy in place. Yet nearly 70 percent felt
very or extremely confident about being ready for external security
challenges.

One would think the epic breaches at TJX or CardSystem Solutions would have
dispelled overconfident thinking over the past couple of years. Obviously
those fiascoes have not made the impact we expected.

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More:
http://www.securitypronews.com/insiderreports/insider/spn-49-20080207TechMe
diaTelcoCompaniesStinkAtSecurity.html

- - ferg

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"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg(at)netzero.net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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