75% of Enterprises Have Suffered Cyber Attacks, Costing $2M+ On Average

coomaria writes "OK, even allowing for the fact this comes from a newly published study (PDF) from a security company, that's still one heck of a statistic. The fact that it's Symantec, and so has access to perhaps more enterprises than most, makes it a double-heck with knobs on. Or how about this one for size: 'every enterprise, yes, 100 percent, experienced cyber losses in 2009.'"

Re:I'm shocked

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm sure this is part of the anti-China propaganda campaign.

Hardly

[RMH101]

Aw, c'mon. We've not spent nearly $2M on Symantec licences here, and I'd hardly call their sales pitch a cyber attack.

I'm here all week, try the veal

"a double-heck with knobs on"

[circletimessquare]

i'm not familiar with that metric. could you convert that into libraries of congress?

Re:"a double-heck with knobs on"

[wintercolby]

I'm afraid it can only be represented in negative LoC's as it's an extra spammy article, refrencing a sales brochure for Symantec. 10 brain cells were completely wasted in reviewing TFA, as well as 3 mouse clicks to close out the full screen ads.

Re:symantec

[Coopjust]

I think Symantec should detect their own product as Trojan.Symantec.

Seriously, Symantec and McAfee applications are more ill behaved with system resources than most viruses.

Cyber

[Anonymous Coward]

I must verify the claims made in the summary: my workplace suffered severe cyber losses during 2009.

Thankfully, we'd prepared for this, and had ordered in cyber ahead of time so the supply of cyber was not interrupted. (Sadly, we were not as quick to deal with the Y2K bug and, as a result, we incurred almost complete loss of all our cyber.)

Which Enterprises are being counted?

[Colonel Korn]

By my count (of Wikipedia), there are 2 Enterprises from the Continental Navy, 6 from the US Navy, 1 balloon, 1 space shuttle, 1 training ship, and 8 starships that are worth counting, for a total of 19 Enterprises. If 75% have suffered major cyber attacks and we round down, we have 14 cyber-victims.

Here's where it gets weird. Clearly the 8 starships are attackable in the computerized sense. That leaves us with 6 other hackable Enterprises. Most likely 1 is the space shuttle, 1 is the training vessel, and 1 is the contemporary air craft carrier. But that means 3 more Enterprises were cyber-violated out of a pool containing a balloon used during the Civil War and 5 US Navy ships decommissioned between 1823 and 1947.

This seems to be proof of a pre-modern technological underground. Or time travel.

Re:Which Enterprises are being counted?

[Ukab the Great]

The Federation needs more H1B visas so they can outsource security from Qu'onos. Plus, they can pay them less as long as they offer free Bloodwine as a perk.

Actually Only 25%

[Anonymous Coward]

This article severely overestimates the impact of cybernetic attacks. According to my count, the borg only invaded 25% of starship enterprises, excluding those existing in alternate timelines/realities.