Security Discussion CS 4235B Fall 2005 Group 2

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Security DiscussionCS 4235B Fall 2005 Group 2

• Italo Dacosta, Brian DirRito, Nazli Dokuzoglu,
  Nicholas Dorsey, Vehbi Dragaj, Nikhil Gandhi

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CSI/FBI COMPUTER CRIME AND SECURITY SURVEY
(January 2005 - 700 participants, mostly CEO,
System administrators)

• Virus attacks
• Unauthorized use of computer systems
• Web site incidents
• Cyber insurance
• Outsourcing
• Federal and State Government

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The Executive Cyber Threat Awareness Survey -CIO
Magazine (January, 2002 - 707 Participants,
mostly executives.)

• Viruses
• Anti-Virus software
• Managers and IT people agree this is the main
  area of concern
• 85 of managers and IT professionals are
  concerned with viruses
• IT professionals and Management are more
  concerned with loss of personal information
  rather than hackers gaining computer access

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Whos Secure

• In general the larger the company the better the
  security

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2004 InfoWorld Security Survey(June 9-18, 2004 -
606 participants, mostly IT professionals)

• Less confidence
• Awareness training and more bodies
• Successful attacks are not increasing
• OS flaws and malicious code
• Microsoft for enterprise security?
• Security challenges

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Surveys Comparison

• Similarities
• Malicious code
• Security technologies
• Security awareness
• Application attacks
• Outsourcing security
• Differences
• Level of confidence
• Security concerns

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Conclusions

• Firewalls and Antivirus software is not enough to
  be secure
• Security must be a high priority
• Being secure is a team effort
• People are more aware of the security problems
  when compared to past years