80% external? (was RE: [MI400] Beginner question re: CPYBTL)

[qsrvbas@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Tom Liotta)]

This probably gets us away from MI and on to Security400, but it's a point to 
ponder for everyone, so...

"jt" <jt@ee.net> wrote:

>| 80% of all computer crimes are inside jobs.
>
>This being true,

Hmmm... let's say "This being accepted as true,...". Nobody knows and nobody 
CAN know.

For example, from an article at the Computer Security Institute ( 
http://www.gocsi.com/press/20020407.html ):

<copy>
Based on responses from 503 computer security practitioners in U.S. 
corporations, government agencies, financial institutions, medical institutions 
and universities, the findings of the "2002 Computer Crime and Security Survey" 
confirm that the threat from computer crime and other information security 
breaches continues unabated and that the financial toll is mounting.

Highlights of the "2002 Computer Crime and Security Survey" include:

* For the fifth year in a row, more respondents (74%) cited their Internet 
connection as a frequent point of attack than cited their internal systems as a 
frequent point of attack (33%).
</copy>

Some points snipped for brevity.

Tom Liotta

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