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Despite the valiant efforts of network security companies and the vigilance of IT Security Personnel and System Administrators, it seems that 2011 is turning out to be a banner year for network security breaches and cybercrime in general.
It appears that regardless of the robustness of an antivirus suite or the integrity of a firewall, the human factor (the people within the breached organization itself) continues to play a major role in turning over funds, intellectual properties and databases to the bad guys.
One could conclude that although cybercrimes continue to happen in alarming numbers, Internet Security Awareness is not yet increasing proportionatelythe lacking ingredient to curtail this growing trend being Internet Security Awareness Training for every employee with access to a company network and the Internet.
"If you are an organization with money, there is someone out there who would be happy to steal it from you. If you have valuable data, same deal," Application Security CTO Josh Shaul told eWEEK.
The publication (eWEEK) analyzed a list pulled from PrivacyRights.org containing more than 150 cyberheist events reported in 2011. They focused on hacked incidents, or "electronic entry by an outside party, malware and spyware." Go to some of the largest data breaches reported in 2011 to see the full article and view their slide show.
Stu Sjouwerman
KnowBe4
[/caption]Despite the valiant efforts of network security companies and the vigilance of IT Security Personnel and System Administrators, it seems that 2011 is turning out to be a banner year for network security breaches and cybercrime in general.
It appears that regardless of the robustness of an antivirus suite or the integrity of a firewall, the human factor (the people within the breached organization itself) continues to play a major role in turning over funds, intellectual properties and databases to the bad guys.
One could conclude that although cybercrimes continue to happen in alarming numbers, Internet Security Awareness is not yet increasing proportionatelythe lacking ingredient to curtail this growing trend being Internet Security Awareness Training for every employee with access to a company network and the Internet.
"If you are an organization with money, there is someone out there who would be happy to steal it from you. If you have valuable data, same deal," Application Security CTO Josh Shaul told eWEEK.
The publication (eWEEK) analyzed a list pulled from PrivacyRights.org containing more than 150 cyberheist events reported in 2011. They focused on hacked incidents, or "electronic entry by an outside party, malware and spyware." Go to some of the largest data breaches reported in 2011 to see the full article and view their slide show.
Stu Sjouwerman
KnowBe4
