Managing Cisco Network Security P1

The “2000 CSI/FBI Computer Crime and Security Survey,” conducted in early 2000 by the Computer Security Institute (CSI) with participation by the San Francisco office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), showed that 90 percent of survey participants from large U.S. corporations, financial institutions, medical institutions, universities, and government agencies detected security breaches in 1999. About 70 percent of the participants experienced breaches more serious than viruses or employee Web abuse. Forty-two percent of survey participants (273 organizations) claimed financial losses totaling over 265 million dollars from cyber attacks. These security threats were composed of an assortment of attacks and abuses that originated both internally and externally to their...