The Information Security Problem

No matter how you measure cyber security threats, risks are increasing at an alarming rate. Consider the recent evidence of this growing problem:

• Online crime has increased nearly 600% in 2009
• > $1 trillion in intellectual property lost per year
• > 42% of small businesses has lost data is the past
• The average cost per data breach was $188,000 (2009)
• 1 out of 20 Americans risk being a victim to data breach in 2010
• The "cost per victim" is $204 per stolen record
• 75% of enterprises experienced some form of cyber attack (2009)
• > 3.6 million people lost more than $3.2 billion to malicious phishing scams
• Over 9 million records exposed by breach in 2010
• Fake anti-malware and security software programs increased 585% (2009)
• 225% increase in malicious web sites
• 13.7% of searches for trending news/buzz words will lead to malware
• 71% of web sites with malicious code are compromised legitimate sites
• 1 new infected webpage every 4.5 seconds
• Non-work related Internet surfing results in up to a 40% loss in production each year