75% of Enterprises Have Suffered Cyber Attacks, Costing $2M+ On Average 81
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.'"
What's cheaper? (Score:1, Interesting)
A proper security auditing team or a loss here and there?
Business as usual - avoiding costs because their financial losses are smaller and/or deductable.
Re:Original report... (Score:4, Interesting)
Oh, for crying out loud. The report PDF [symantec.com] isn't even searchable: every page is a solid bitmap graphic.
Can anyone tell me what a "brand-related risk" might be for security professionals (see page 6). Do they mean corporate espionage? Or has the CTO threatened to use red-hot irons on the I.T. staff?
Re:Full Text (Score:4, Interesting)
And of course security is not something you can buy, any more than trust.
With that in mind, here's a stat that Symantec doesn't want you to know:
100% of the companies that depend on Symantec to make them secure are vulnerable.
Confused (Score:1, Interesting)
So, let me see, this is an enterprise (Symantec) responsible for enterprise security saying that enterprise security is crap.......which means that they (Symantec) are not doing too good a job which is something that everyone already knows. Hmmm, nothing to see here, move along.
Re:I'd be surprised if it's anything less than 100 (Score:3, Interesting)
Were it that easy.
Sadly, you can get smashed by the zero-days, the rootkits from hell, the flash-drive-dummies, Mr or Ms I-Don't-Get-Paid-Enough, the supposed 100% spam killing filters, and so on.
Yes, we try. And your concept of filtration via layers works for many types of attacks and security failures. But nothing is foolproof because fools are so ingenioius.
This isn't to justify Symantec's latest PR attempt, just to remind you that while you look organized, something's sneaking up behind you.