It's Raining IT Security Surveys

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It's Raining IT Security Surveys

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday March 20, 2006 @07:52PM from the 63-percent-of-all-statistics-made-up-on-the-spot dept.

Bob Brown writes "It seems like there are more surveys pumped out on IT and network security threats these days than there are threats themselves. This story examines why vendors are cranking these surveys out so frequently and what people think about it."

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Way to mess up the rhyme and meter! by temojen · 2006-03-20 19:57 · Score: 4, Funny

It's raining IT Security Surveys Hallelujah It's raining IT Security Surveys Just doesn't work.
1. Re:Way to mess up the rhyme and meter! by Ryosen · 2006-03-21 02:50 · Score: 1
  
  (With thanks (apologies?) to temojen)
  
  Hi - Hi! We're your Sys Admins - Ah-huh -
  And have we got news for you - You better listen!
  Get ready, all you lonely geeks
  and leave those IP Chains at home. - Alright! -
  
  Bandwidth is rising (oooh, rising) - Defenses are getting low
  According to all sources, the Net's the palce to go
  Cause tonight for the first time
  Just about half-past ten
  For the first time in history
  We're gonna start breaking in!
  
  It's raining IT Security Surveys! Hallelujah!
  It's raining IT Security Surveys! Amen!
  I'm gonna go out to surf and boot myself to get absolutely root!
  It's raining IT Security Surveys! Hallelujah!
  It's raining IT Security Surveys! Every single script!
  Fast, stealth, dark and lean
  Polymorphic, no logs, clean!
  
  God bless PHBs, they're cheap and lazy too
  They took off the weekend, and told the admins what they had to do
  But they sat there reading Slashdot, playing WoW all nii-iiight
  So that each and every kiddie, could find the perfect exploit
  
  It's raining IT Security Surveys! Hallelujah!
  It's raining IT Security Surveys! Amen!
  
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  Ryosen
  One man's "Troll, +1" is another man's "Insightful, +1".
Great summary! by BadAnalogyGuy · 2006-03-20 19:59 · Score: 2, Insightful

Atypical summary for Slashdot! Effective, gets to the point, doesn't give the entire article away, and generates curiosity about the article. I haven't seen an article summary this good in recent memory.

Off-topic, so send this to -1, but I just wanted to send kudos to Bob Brown for an excellent writeup and ScuttleMonkey for recognizing it.

I don't have an opinion about the article itself. I'm don't live in the dungeons of IT, so I never see these surveys the article talks about. I'm just happy if I can get a large multi-gigabyte network transfer to go through without choking off my internet connection.
Summary by solarbob · 2006-03-20 20:03 · Score: 1

Its an article about a survey of people who send out surveys. Almost rescursive surveys

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Advertisements by jlarocco · 2006-03-20 20:03 · Score: 4, Funny
It's simple, really:
1. Post a BS security threat survey on a website packed to the brim with advertisements
2. Get on front page of /.
3. Profit.
4. Repeat steps 1-3 with a survey of security threat surveys
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1. Re:Advertisements by colonslashslash · 2006-03-20 20:25 · Score: 1
  
  Hmmm. Your ideas intrigue me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter. :)
  
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Well, obvious reason: There's money in it by Opportunist · 2006-03-20 22:15 · Score: 4, Insightful

Security has finally become an issue. Until recently, it was none. "Hey, it works, we don't need to invest more" has been management's creed when it comes to IT.

Now, we have a few cases of security breaches, phishing attacks and so on. The media jumped the wagon and ride the hype further. So execs go out of their IT hibernation and start looking around for security experts to fix their holes. Either after damage is done or (less frequently) to prevent damage.

So how do you get those execs to pick YOU as the company to do security for them? Security is, after all, a highly lucrative business, a full audit of your page or net can cost in the 5-6 digit range.

You start pumping security bulletins. It's not so much the need to show there is a threat. It's more to show that YOU know it, YOU can handle it, YOU have experience and YOU are the company that should get the contract.

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Periscan by oliverjms · 2006-03-20 23:32 · Score: 0

New security searching company is perican (www.periscan.com) they search your servers for external threats.
They noticed a lot of security surveys... by MaggieL · 2006-03-20 23:50 · Score: 1

...so they surveyed twenty vendors to find out who's surveying and why?

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What they don't realize is that... by i_am_the_r00t · 2006-03-21 05:24 · Score: 1

The people who actually fill out the surveys aren't actually doing any work.

Do you know one busy person you know who has time to fill out a survey?

we can barely find the time to post inane things like this on /.