Re: Education sector most affected by malware

[Joel Rosenblatt <joel () COLUMBIA EDU>]

So, your NAC will tell you that the Trend product that didn't stop the malware from getting installed is working :-)

Joel

--On Wednesday, October 06, 2010 8:18 AM -0700 Christopher Jones <Christopher.Jones () ufv ca> wrote:

> Vendor supplied stats are always suspect.  But even if you divided them in half, the numbers are still scary.  Here's 
> another good reason to implement a NAC
> solution.
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> My 2.0 cents
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> Christopher
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> Regards,
> Christopher Jones
> IT Security Administrator
> Information Technology Services
> University of the Fraser Valley
> 33844 King Road
> Abbotsford, BC  V2S 7M8
> 604.854.4566
> Christopher.Jones () ufv ca
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> > > > Joel Rosenblatt <joel () COLUMBIA EDU> 10/06/2010 8:01 AM >>>
> Not that I don't believe them, but I am always suspect of statements made by vendors - the assumption made is that they 
> represent enough of the total AV
> business that they can state unequivocally that .edu owns 44% of the malware may or may not be true - I know that, for 
> one, we do not use their product, and
> from a Gartner report I found, they had about 14% of the total AV market in 2005 
> <http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=493858>, so, if we say that their
> share  has increased to, lets say, 20% since then, we are really talking about 44% of 20% ... I always look at the 
> source of these numbers .. the saying is,
> there are  lies, damned lies, and statistics.
>
> My 2 cents
>
> Joel
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> --On Wednesday, October 06, 2010 10:02 AM -0400 Matthew Gracie <graciem () CANISIUS EDU> wrote:
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> > DiGrazia, Mick A wrote:
> > > Education owns 44% of malware infections by industry
> >
> > We're number one! Woo-hoo!
> >
> > As the article points out, this is at least partially attributable to
> > student-owned machines, which are not secured in any meaningful way by
> > education IT staff. The remarkably permissive model that's usually
> > applied to college-owned machines probably doesn't help, either.
> >
> > --
> > Matt Gracie    (716) 888-8378
> > Information Security Administrator  graciem () canisius edu
> > Canisius College ITS    Buffalo, NY
> > http://www2.canisius.edu/~graciem/graciem_public_key.gpg
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> Joel Rosenblatt, Manager Network & Computer Security
> Columbia Information Security Office (CISO)
> Columbia University, 612 W 115th Street, NY, NY 10025 / 212 854 3033
> http://www.columbia.edu/~joel



Joel Rosenblatt, Manager Network & Computer Security
Columbia Information Security Office (CISO)
Columbia University, 612 W 115th Street, NY, NY 10025 / 212 854 3033
http://www.columbia.edu/~joel