Re: Stop The 70% Lie

["The Security Community" <thesecuritycommunity () gmail com>]

On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 3:01 PM,  <Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu> wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:51:59 EDT, The Security Community said:
>
> On the other hand, it's going to be very hard to fight the "70% are insiders"
> meme until you find a way to debunk this survey:
>
> http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,369302,00.html
>
> Survey: One in 3 Information Tech Professionals Snoops on Other Employees
>
> Nearly half - 47 percent - said they'd accessed information that wasn't
> directly relevant to their jobs."

Good article.  I remember it well.  It pissed off a lot of people
around here.  When are IT people going to wise up and start lying on
surveys?

Again, CyberArk != FBI and 47 != 70.

47% is in line with all of the CSI/FBI surveys.  That's a good number.
 There's no problem with 47%.  In fact the FBI does state on fbi.gov
in comments on the 2005 CSI survey that "inside jobs" occur as often
as outside attacks, which would make 50% the high end.  But 70%?
There is no data.  Anywhere.
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