http://www.antiguasun.com/paper/?as=view&sun=100517108809262005&an=495409096609262005&ac=Local September 26 2005 Emerging from the excitement of the Tech Fest 2005 and in preparation for World Standards Day (WSD) on 14 Oct., the Antigua & Barbuda Bureau of Standards (ABBS) would like to highlight the following excerpt as a timely tool for the information society, in keeping with the 2005 WSD theme - "Standards for a safer world". For most business information, security may be essential to maintain competitive edge, cash flow, profitability, legal compliance and commercial image. But many businesses and most non-business organisations may hold information as their only asset. An absence of information security may threaten their integrity and therefore their very existence. The 2002 Computer Crime and Security Survey of 503 computer security practitioners in the United States (conducted by the Computer Security Institute with the participation of the San Francisco FBI Computer Intrusion Squad) indicated that the threat from computer crime and other information security breaches continues unabated - and that the financial toll is mounting. According to the survey's findings, 90 per cent of the respondents detected computer security breaches within 12 months covered by the survey, 80 per cent acknowledged financial losses due to computer breaches, and 46 per cent (223 respondents) reported their resulting financial losses as totalling, US$455,848,000. _________________________________________ InfoSec News v2.0 - Coming Soon! http://www.infosecnews.org
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