Infrastructure & Security News

Spring 2005

With the average cost of a single security breach at over half a million dollars, IT professionals acknowledge the need for proactive, enterprise-wide network security.

In today's business environment, it is the trends towards increased involvement of business leaders and legal departments that is an interesting dynamic to the security industry as a whole.

Counting the costs can be difficult. According to the 2004 CSI/FBI Computer Crime and Security Survey, worms account for the most significant losses and cost the 269 companies surveyed over $55 million. Denial of Service attacks were the second most significant at $26 million dollars. Globally, analysts estimate that in 2004 the Bagle, Netsky and Mydoom worms caused billions of dollars in lost productivity and IT restoration services

Full article: http://www.scmagazine.com/features/index.cfm?fuseaction=featureDetails&newsUID=c6141aba-38e4-45ed-8309-aba14a053517

Medical group: Data on 185,000 people was stolen
(April 8, 2005 ZDNet (www.zdnet.com)

A California medical group is telling nearly 185,000 current and former patients that their financial and medical records may have been exposed following the theft of computers containing personal data.

Given the number of people affected, the theft from the San Jose Medical Group ranks among the largest in the nation. It follows a rash of other breaches that have raised concerns about the security of sensitive information.

The theft occurred after the San Jose Medical Group had copied patient and financial information from its secured servers to two local PCs, said Mike Patel, vice president of information technology for the San Jose Medical Group.

Full story: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5660514.html