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To: marcher who wrote (178)3/5/1999 11:21:00 PM
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From Information Week:
Study: Security Threats From Outside On The Rise

Businesses are now just as likely to get hit from the
outside by a security attack as from within their own
firewall, according to the results of the Computer Security
Institute's annual "Computer Crime and Security" survey. For
the third year in a row, system penetration from outside the
company rose, with 57% of the 521 respondents reporting
assaults on their Internet connections. That number, driven
by the growth of Internet and extranet applications and the
disappearance of an enterprise border, is up from 37% the
previous year.

"The old rule that we would see 80% of the penetration
coming from the inside, 20% from the outside, is outmoded,"
says Richard Power, editorial director for the institute.
"This isn't to say the threat from the inside has diminished
-- it hasn't. It is just showing that the threat from
outside is now co-equal to it."

The news from this study of security professionals wasn't
all bad. Firewall deployments, security technology
implementations, and overall awareness are growing. The
overwhelming majority of the respondents hit by an intrusion
in the last 12 months filled in known holes to keep hackers
at bay. Unfortunately, the intrusions were probably
expensive. Of the 31% of survey respondents able to quantify
financial losses due to a breech, the average cost carried a
tab of $1.8 million. -- Amy K. Larsen
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