Carnegie Mellon University??™s Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) shows in
its cyberterrorism study that the bad guys are getting smarter, more resourceful, and
seemingly unstoppable, as shown in Figure 1-2.
So what will companies need to do to properly protect themselves from these types of
incidents and business risks?
??? In 2006, an increasing number of companies felt that security was the number
one concern of senior management. Protection from attack was their highest
priority, followed by proprietary data protection, then customer and client
privacy, and finally regulatory compliance issues.
??? Telecommuting, mobile devices, public terminals, and thumb drives are viewed
as principal sources of unauthorized data access and data theft, but are not yet
covered in most corporate security policies and programs.
??? The FBI has named computer crimes as their third priority. The 203-page
document that justifies its 2008 fiscal year budget request to Congress included
a request for $258.5 million to fund 659 field agents. This is a 1.5 percent
increase over the 2007 fiscal year.
??? IT budgets, staffing, and salaries were expected to increase during the year 2007
according to a survey of CIOs and IT executives conducted by the Society for
Information Management.
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