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average annual cost of cybercrime facing

businesses

Number of records stolen

The Cyber Security Council's 5 most effective solutions for dealing with cyber threat:

Reduce number of users with

administrative privileges

Patch system and application software within 48 hours

Patch system software within

within 48 hours

Use of standard, secure system configurations

Application whitelisting

App control is the #1 strategy forovercoming real world attacks (Australian DoD)

Password protection Antivirus software

90%of passwords are

vulnerable to hacking

Top 5 common passwords of 2013

92% of organizations say up to date antivirus

software is in use today...

... yet only 34% rate it as highly effective in preventing cyber intrusions

Firewalls

88% say a perimeter firewall is in use today...

...the remaining 12%have plans to implement one

34% of an organization’s total time on IT security issues is dedicated to managing user profiles ...

92% of critical Microsoft vulnerabilities

would be mitigated by removing admin rights

100% of Internet Explorer vulnerabilities would be mitigated by removing admin rights.

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Phishing

53%

Rogue software /downloads

60%

Target

Unpatched vulnerabilities

74%

Targeted attacks (APTs)

77%

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not prepared or only minimally prepared to

deal with attacks

52%Yet

is dedicated to securing the endpoint...

48%...whilesay that securing the endpoint is difficult

to achieve

81%...yet

increase in the number of data breaches in 2013

62%There was a Over 288,000 new cyber threats are

reported every day

– that’s 3 persecond

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SourcesInfosec Security Survey: conducted by Avecto at InfoSec 2014. The Internet Society: http://www.internetsociety.org/history?gclid=CLyb45al-b0CFcHnwgodhIMAxwhttp: //www.personal.psu.edu/users/j/m/jms6423/Engproj/History%20of%20Computer%20Crime.xhtmlComputer Hope: http://www.computerhope.com/history/internet.htmHeartbleed.com: http://heartbleed.com/Microsoft: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/mbj/Smiley/smiley.htmlAbout.com: http://email.about.com/od/emailtrivia/f/first_spam.htmInternet World Stats: http://www.internetworldstats.com/emarketing.htmLiveScience: http://www.livescience.com/20727-internet-history.htmlWikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_computer_viruses_and_wormshttp://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/09/us/snowden-used-low-cost-tool-to-best-nsa.html?hp&_r=2Pew Research Internet Project: http://www.pewinternet.org/2014/03/11/world-wide-web-timeline/

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