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Survey shows business sceptical about external hacking
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Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 04:22:24 -0500 (CDT)
http://www.v3.co.uk/v3/news/2250893/survey-shows-business-sceptical By Iain Thomson in San Francisco V3.co.uk 09 Oct 2009 A global survey of IT managers from IDC has shown that the last majority think that having the company hacked from the outside is highly unlikely. Of the companies questioned just 15 per cent thought that they would lose data to hackers, with three times as many thinking employee carelessness would cause a breach. However, if such an attack did occur is would cause the most damage. "The challenge when protecting an organisation from internal attack is that traditional defences are designed to face outward, at the perimeter of a network, whereas the inside of the network remains relatively free of security controls," said Neil Campbell, global general manager security solutions for Dimension Data, which sponsored the research. "Compounding the problem, security awareness training initiatives for employees often go unfunded. That's because organisations find it difficult to demonstrate a return on investment for such training." [...] ________________________________________ Did a friend send you this? From now on, be the first to find out! Subscribe to InfoSec News http://www.infosecnews.org
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