How Secure Are You Really?
When the results of InformationWeek Research's annual Information Security Survey came in a few weeks ago, we were surprised to see that 84% of survey participants don't believe their organizations are more vulnerable to malicious-code attacks and security breaches than a year ago. Do these people run their computer operations in an airtight biosphere somewhere? With Wi-Fi, cell phones, and Bluetooth, even that wouldn't be safe these days.
The answer appears to be that IT professionals simply aren't intimidated by the threats that keep coming. Worms, viruses, Trojans, keystroke loggers, phishing, pharming, denial-of-service attacks, software vulnerabilities, cracked passwords, spyware--they're all in a day's work. Survey respondents apparently believe they've got the systems and processes in place to deal with the increasingly complex threats.
