Many organisations are focused on stopping random hackers and blocking pornography when they should be concerned with bigger threats from professional cybercriminals, according to a new cybersecurity report.
In a survey conducted in 2009 of 523 IT and security managers, top-level executives and law-enforcement personnel, hackers were rated the biggest threat, followed by insiders and foreign entities — probably because hackers are the "noisiest and easiest to detect", the 2010 CyberSecurity Watch Survey concluded.
However, attackers from nation-states and organised crime syndicates use more sophisticated techniques that can do more economic damage and go undiscovered, said the report, sponsored by Deloitte and conducted in collaboration with CSO Magazine, the US Secret Service and the Cert Coordination Center at Carnegie Mellon.
For more on this story, see Report: Companies unprepared for cybercrime CNET News.
