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75% of Enterprises Have Suffered Cyber Attacks, Costing $2M+ On Average

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the that's-a-lot-of-green dept.

coomaria writes "OK, even allowing for the fact this comes from a newly published study (PDF) from a security company, that's still one heck of a statistic. The fact that it's Symantec, and so has access to perhaps more enterprises than most, makes it a double-heck with knobs on. Or how about this one for size: 'every enterprise, yes, 100 percent, experienced cyber losses in 2009.'"

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  1. Re:Original report... by Dunbal · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Can anyone tell me what a "brand-related risk" might be for security professionals

          Presumably that would be "not buying Symantec security products".

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  2. Define "cyber attack". And don't use average by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Connect any web server to the internet and you'll see tons of connections from botnets trying randomly to exploit various old vulnerabilities. Technically, these are attacks, though you don't need to worry about them if you're patched up.

    So is this saying anything more than 75% of enterprises have a web server?

    And the average cost is a meaningless number, since averages are swayed by outliers. If you wanted a good statistic for this, you'd use the median. Alternatively, compute the average of (cost of attack / yearly revenue).