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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Re:Top 6 secrets.. ha ha

[Spoing]

1. 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!"

That would be an improvement over reality: One facility run by a subcontractor has a database that processes 50K checks/day and generates checks in excess of $1 million/day.

Last time I checked, the database had no password on the administrator account.

Nobody was interested in changing this "because we are behind a firewall" and "there's no reason why anyone would look for us or could find us".

Thus, my sig;