Ranking network security breaches
Date: October 18, 2004Source: INQ7.net
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For 2004, in terms of cost to business, the denial-of-service attack has taken over theft of proprietary company information from the prior survey. Virus-related breaches rank the most costly. Here’s a quick rundown of the 2004 survey result, in terms of dollar amount of losses (cost to business per year) by security breach type:
1) Viruses -- 55 million dollars
2) Denial-of-service attacks -- 26 million dollars
3) Data theft -- 11.5 million dollars
4) Insider Net abuse -- 10.6 million dollars
5) Abuse of wireless network -- 10.2 million dollars
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