ISSA / UCD Irish Cybercrime Survey

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I've just been reading the results from the 2006 Irish Cybercrime Survey (a joint project between the Irish chapter of the Information Systems Security Association and the Centre for Cybercrime Investigation at University College Dublin).

The results are fascinating -cybercrime is virtually universal.  98% of Irish companies (who responded to the survey) reported issues, the most common of which were viruses and other malicious software (90%), misuse of systems (88%), asset theft (63%) and phishing (56%).  The scary part is that each of these incidents costs money - anything from €5,000, to well over €100,000.

What's even more scary is the fact that in 2006 only 42 organisations were prepared to respond to the survey!  No one wants to admit to being a victim of cybercrime (as it infers that your IT security isn't as good as it could be), but I'm certain that there was more than 42 organisations affected in 2006.

The second ISSA / UCD Irish Cybercrime Survey is now open.  It's a simple, six page, web based survey, that should take you no more than 20-30 minutes to complete.  The more organisations that respond, the more accurate and realistic the results.  So please, if you have time and are willing to anonymously "own up", click here and complete the survey.

Thanks

Dave.

Comments

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    The horrific facts and statistics!

  • Anonymous
    March 06, 2008
    Thanks for very interesting article. btw. I really enjoyed reading all of your posts. It’s interesting to read ideas, and observations from someone else’s point of view… makes you think more. So please keep up the great work. Greetings.