Re: CRIME 80/20 Rule

From: Crispin Cowan (crispin@private)
Date: Tue Aug 19 2003 - 22:30:07 PDT

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Daggett, Steve wrote:

>  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.  
>
It comes from the same place as the statistic that 57.3% of intrusion 
statistics are made up, and 21.85% of security statistics are pure FUD :-)

Crispin

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