Under Siege - White Paper

Under Siege
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It is estimated that over 95 percent of network attacks are entirely financially motivated. This is different than two or three years ago where it may have been a college student who wanted to crash your computer. Indeed, the new threats are much more sophisticated than those security experts had foiled in the past. The easy things -- viruses, Trojans and worms -- are generally stoppable by most firewalls or certainly inline intrusion prevention. But now, hackers and the organizations that fund them have upped the ante for gateway and network security.

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Increasing Predators
“We’re seeing more instances like TJX, which was a sophisticated wireless attack,” says John Kindervag senior analyst, Security & Risk Management at Forrester Research. He also points to similar breaches involving Hannaford Supermarkets and Dave & Buster’s restaurants.

The sad truth is that the vast majority of such attacks are preventable. This is according to the “2008 Data Breach Investigations Report,” put together by Verizon Business, a unit of Verizon Communications that operates public IP networks.

The report took four years to compile and analyze. The study of 500 forensic investigations, involving 230 million compromised customer records, found that nine out of 10 breaches attributed to hacking attacks took advantage of a vulnerability for which a fix was available at least six months prior to an attack. And assaults on applications, service or software layers were more common than assaults on operating systems.

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