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Security Related Statistics

According to IBM
More than 90% of all virus outbreaks start via e-mail. Spam constitutes 40-60 percent of all e-mail sent.

According to the national cyber security alliance, 62% if computer users have not updated their antivirus software and a staggering 91% in this study had spy ware on their computers that can cause extremely slow performance.

Earthlink, the Atlanta based internet service provider said in April 2004 that it had found 370,000 Trojan horse viruses and system monitors on the 1.6 million computers that it studied. If Earthlink's numbers hold up for all computers, up to 35% are compromised.

According to CNET news

• The SQL Slammer worm cost between $950 million and $1.2 billion in lost productivity in its first five days worldwide and another $750 mill to $1 billion to clean up.
• The Code Red worm generated about $2.6 billion in productivity losses.
• The Love Letter and Klez viruses cost $8.8 billion and $9 billion respectively in productivity losses.

Responders to the Blaster virus impact survey (2003) showed that the virus hit 30,000 computers within 24 hours and caused an average of $494,391 in downtime and recovery. The Blaster was considered a success story compared to Code Red and Nimda!

The Code red worm spread to more than 500,000 computers when remote machines logged into their network.

A recent survey of 237 small businesses by Small Business Pipeline found that 73 percent have no written plan that defines a strategy for responding to disaster. Six of 10 have no formal quantification of how much it would cost their business if it is interrupted for an extended time.

According to the U.K.'s Department of Trade and Industry, 70% of companies go out of business after a major data loss.

Sibial systems research stated that 70% of system failures come from software errors caused by viruses, operating systems or end users causing software failure. 30% of system failures are caused by hardware failure.

From the 2003 Computer Security Institute FBI computer crime and Security survey

• Detected computer security breaches within the previous 12 months cost organizations nearly $202 Million.
• 78% of respondents cited their internet connection as a frequent point of attack.
• 82% of the respondents detected computer viruses.
• 21% of respondents acknowledged detection of theft of proprietary information resulting in a total of almost $70.2million in damages.
• Virus incidents and insider abuse of network access were the most cited forms of attack or abuse. Others cited unauthorized access by insiders, and sabotage as forms of attacks.
• Viruses cost the respondents a total of $27,832,340 while the insider abuse of the network cost $11,767,200.

According to the Gartner group there were 20 million hackers by the end of 2002.

"The estimated cost to deploy a patch for a recognized software flaw runs on average $900 per server and 700 per client. If an organization misses a patch and gets hit by a virus, the cost will be magnified."

- Information Storage + Security Journal,
May 2004, "Before Signing on the Dotted
Line…" by Mary Ann Davidson

Microsoft filters out over 3 billion spam messages a day.

In June 2004 the Gartner group reported that online bank accounts had been looted of $2.4 billion just in the previous 12 months. It is estimated that 1.98 million adults have suffered losses.

According to Symantec Internet security threat report published in September 2004, it takes on average 5.8 days after a software vender announces a vulnerability for criminal hackers to take advantage of the discovery.

26% of companies have dismissed an employee due to the misuse of the internet. (2006)

12% of workers surf the internet for personal reasons most days or everyday during work.

- Hudson staffing survey (2006)

30% of workers send and receive personal emails most days or everyday.

- Hudson staffing survey (2006)

According to Michigan State University up to 70% of identity thefts are conducted by insiders or people posing as insiders.

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