2004 Global Information Security Survey Results

jotok writes "CIO.com has released the results of its 2004 Global Information Security Survey, based on the responses of over 8,000 people in 62 countries, highlighting the Six Secrets of Highly Secure Organizations. The report indicates that security awareness and implementation are gradually improving, but also that information security is still not recieving the attention it requires--especially from management and IT personnel."

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Six Secrets of Highly Secure Organizations

[Anonymous Coward]

Sounds a lot like the two secrets of maintaining security.

1) Never tell anybody everything you know.

there are actually seven

[codefather]

Seventh Secret: Most flaws occur thru "Gates" - Keep away from.

Re:there are actually seven

[stratjakt]

Actually, 8:

Getting advice on slashdot is a sure way to an easily hackable website. While it masquerades as a "geek tech news" forum, it's populated by 12 year olds morons who think they know everything, and who's answer to everything is "Install linux because it's magically secure!".

It goes without saying, of course. What kind of a moron would take computing advice from a bunch of asshats who can't configure Windows properly?

Top 6 secrets.. ha ha

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It would be great if it was accidentally a list of the actual top 6 secrets of those companies, and not a list of how they kept things secret.

Secret 1: the password is 1.. 2.. 3.. 4.. 5!
Company XYZ somewhere, reading list: "CRAP! That's the same combination we use for root!"

Re:whoamg

[Anonymous Coward]

From the article:

Secret 1: Spend more

Wow! This study is really worth its 6 millions.