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Outsourcing Security Monitoring
Grant Geyer | 16 Apr 2009 | 0 comments

Editor's Note: This is the final installment of a four-part series.

 

In the three blog articles I have posted so far, we reported on findings from a recent survey to understand security professionals' perception of the threat environment, the loss associated with cyber attacks, and the challenges organizations are facing in handling cyber security. In this final installment, we’ll look at the use of outsourcing to help solve security challenges.

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Understaffed, Under Budgeted, and Overworked
Grant Geyer | 01 Apr 2009 | 0 comments

Editor’s Note: Part three in a four-part series

 

In the first two blog posts in our series on the Managed Security in the Enterprise report, we established that cyber security is still a problem and respondents have experienced real loss (see It’s Tough Out There and Threats Equate to Actual Loss). Exacerbating the problems of frequent cyber attacks and mounting losses is the fact that 49 percent of American organizations reported that it is getting somewhat/significantly more difficult to provide security. Our survey respondents attributed their challenges to four...

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Managed Security in the Enterprise: Threats Equate to Actual Loss
Grant Geyer | 31 Mar 2009 | 0 comments

Editor’s Note: Part two in a four-part series

In part one of our blog series based on Symantec’s new research report, Managed Security in the Enterprise, I provided an overview of the challenges organizations are facing from cyber attacks. While we aren’t surprised that almost all U.S. respondents (88 percent) stated that their organizations have experienced cyber attacks over the past two years, the cyber loss they’ve experienced is staggering.

Incredibly, 97 percent of respondents reported real, tangible loss as a direct result of cyber attacks. When asked about the kind of cyber loss experienced, 46 percent of respondents in the United States claimed that they experienced downtime of their...

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Managed Security in the Enterprise: It’s Tough Out There
Grant Geyer | 27 Mar 2009 | 0 comments

Editor’s Note: Part one in a four-part series.

Most security practitioners won’t be surprised to hear this: security is tough, and getting tougher. In fact, at times, I’m sure it seems like a perfect storm of problems; the threats are getting worse, losses are mounting, and—in the midst of the global downturn—there are very real concerns around staffing and budgets.

Earlier this week, we announced the findings of a new study, Managed Security in the Enterprise, based on surveys of 1,000 IT managers in U.S. and European enterprises in January 2009. We used this to complement the Symantec Internet Security Threat Report, vol. XIII in order to obtain qualitative data through feedback from security practitioners about changes in the...

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