Cybercrime Against Businesses 2005

<p>Presents the nature and prevalence of computer security incidents among 7818 businesses in 2005. This is the first report to provide data on monetary loss and system downtime resulting from cyber incidents. It examines details on types of offenders reporting of incidents to law enforcement reasons for not reporting incidents types of systems affected and the most common security vulnerabilities. The report also compares in-house security to outsourced security in terms of prevalence of cyber attacks. Appendix tables include industry-level findings.<br><br>Highlights include the following:<br><br>Computer virus infections were the most prevalent cybercrime among businesses in 2005.<br>The 3247 businesses that incurred monetary loss from cybercrime lost a total of $867 million.<br>Most businesses did not report cyber attacks to law enforcement authorities.<br>Part of the Cybercrime against Businesses Series</p><p>This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore you will see the original copyright references library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world) and other notations in the work.</p><p>This work is in the public domain in the United States of America and possibly other nations. Within the United States you may freely copy and distribute this work as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.</p><p>As a reproduction of a historical artifact this work may contain missing or blurred pages poor pictures errant marks etc. Scholars believe and we concur that this work is important enough to be preserved reproduced and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.</p>