It's not a real statistic. It's an application of the 80/20 rule to make conventional wisdom seem like it is quantified. Craig A Schiller, CISSP Global Information Security Officer RadiSys Corporation craig.schiller@private 503.615.1646 This electronic message contains information which may be confidential, privileged or otherwise protected from disclosure. The information is intended to be used solely by the named recipient(s). If you are not a named recipient, any review, disclosure, copying, distribution or use of this transmission or its contents is prohibited. If you have received this transmission in error, please notify me immediately. |---------+----------------------------> | | "Daggett, Steve" | | | <Steve.Daggett@Fi| | | serv.com> | | | Sent by: | | | owner-crime@private| | | x.edu | | | | | | | | | 08/19/2003 10:25| | | AM | | | | |---------+----------------------------> >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | | | To: "Crime (E-mail)" <crime@private> | | cc: | | Subject: CRIME 80/20 Rule | >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| There's an often quoted statistic that 20% of network intrusions come from the outside and 80% intrusions are inside jobs. I've heard it, I've read it, I've even said it... Does anyone know were the statistic comes from? I've been looking around the web and can't seem to find an authoritative source for the statistic. Steve Daggett Senior Network Design Engineer Fiserv EFT This e-mail is confidential and may well be legally privileged. If you have received it in error, you are on notice of its status. Please notify us immediately by reply e-mail and then delete this message from your system. Please do not copy it or use it for any purposes, or disclose its contents to any other person. To do so could violate state and Federal privacy laws. Thank you for your cooperation. Please contact me if you need assistance.
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