http://gcn.com/articles/2010/03/25/fose-cdw-security-survey.aspx By Kathleen Hickey GCN.com March 25, 2010 Ninety-four percent of government and related information technology professionals believe federal agencies and networks get attacked every day, but 47 percent believe their organization does not have the funding it needs to meet its security requirements, according to a poll of FOSE attendees at CDW-G's presentation of its November 2009 Federal Cybersecurity Report. A further 27 percent were unsure whether they had the funding needed to support their cybersecurity efforts. CDW-G polled the attendees directly on Wednesday. The survey respondents came from federal civilian agencies (16 percent), Defense Department( 42 percent) and state and local government (4 percent). Another 26 percent came from industry, and the remaining 12 percent were classed as "other" in Wednesday's FOSE session. In all, 50 people were polled. The top security issues: * Inappropriate employee activity andnetwork use (29 percent). * Malware (21 percent). * Lost passwords (18 percent). * Educating end-users 13 percent. [...] ___________________________________________________________ Register now for HITBSecConf2010 - Dubai, the premier deep-knowledge network security event in the GCC, featuring keynote speakers John Viega and Matt Watchinski! http://conference.hitb.org/hitbsecconf2010dxb/Received on Thu Mar 25 2010 - 23:03:31 PDT
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