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Industry Security Trends - Whitepapers and Reports (Date Sorted)

Date

Report

Comment

Cost

Dec 2003 Business Case for Infosec Awareness Program IsecT Ltd's Generic business case for having an information security awareness program. Covers many selling techniques, as well as outlines what a good program should entail. [Free, Online]
May 2003 Global Security Survey 2003 Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu's Global Security Survey 2003.  Topics surveyed include Security Governance, Investment, Value, Risk, Responsiveness, Use of security technologies, Quality of Operations, and Privacy. [Free, Online]
May 2003
CERT/CC Trends Report
"CERT/CC Overview Incident and Vulnerability Trends", May 15, 2003.  Covers trends in information security from 1998 to present.  Multiple PDFs.
[Free, Online]
Feb 2003 Symantec Internet Security Threat Report vIII Riptech's (Symantec's) excellent report on attack trends gleaned from the continual 24x7 monitoring of hundreds of organizations during Q3 and Q4 of 2002. In pdf format. [Free, Online]
Jul 2002
Riptech Internet Security Threat Report vII
Riptech's excellent report on attack trends gleaned from the continual 24x7 monitoring of hundreds of organizations during Q1 and Q2 of 2002. In pdf format.
[Free, Online]
Jun 2002
Information Security Breaches Survey 2002
UK Department of Trade and Industry's (managed by Price Waterhouse Coopers ) bi-annual report on information security breaches.  In PDF format.

[Free, Online]
Jan 2002
Riptech Internet Security Threat Report Riptech's excellent report on attack trends gleaned from the continual 24x7 monitoring of hundreds of organizations during Q3 and Q4 of 2001. In pdf format. [Free, Online]
2001
ICSA Labs 7th Annual
Computer Virus
Prevalence Survey 2001

TruSecure's   2001 Computer Virus Prevalence Survey.  The survey provides a thorough overview of the state of computer viruses encountered today.
[Free, register]
2001
Issues and Trends 2001 CSI's "Issues and Trends: 2001 CSI/FBI Computer Crime and Security Survey".  Register for a free hard copy. [Free, register]
2001
Studies and Surveys of Computer Crime (2001) Why don't we have accurate and precise statistics about the incidence of different kinds of computer crime? How can we judge the value of survey results about computer crime? M. E. Kabay, PhD, CISSP of the Department of Computer Information Systems at Norwich University provides the basics for thinking about computer crime.  In pdf format. [Free, Online]
Oct 2000
Security Trends 2001 (SANS)   From the SANS Institute - "Security Trends for 2001".  In pdf format. [Free, Online]
2000
Security Focused   Information Security Magazine's 2000 Survey, Covering Budgets, Threats, e-Commerce trends, and much more! [Free, Online]
1999
Infosec Year in Review '99 ICSA.Net's INFOSEC Year in Review 1999.  Reviews computer security statistics and trends for 1999. In PDF format. [Free, register]
1998
Computer Crime Statistics From ICSA.Net - M.E.Kabay's 1998 Report dealing with the state of the industry.  In PDF format. [Free, register]
1998
Infosec Year in Review '98

 

ICSA.Net's INFOSEC Year in Review 1998.  Reviews computer security statistics and trends for 1998.  In PDF format. (NO LONGER AVAILABLE) [Free, register]
1998
Multi-Dimensional Security "A Multi-Dimensional Approach to Internet Security" by Frederick Avolio , 1998. Discusses the paradigm changes in security needs since 1988, and why multiple layers of security are so important now. [Free, Online]
1997
Infosec Year in Review '97 ICSA.Net's INFOSEC Year in Review 1997.  Reviews computer security statistics and trends for 1997.  In PDF format. [Free, register]
1996
Infosec Year in Review '96** ICSA.Net's INFOSEC Year in Review 1996.  Reviews computer security statistics and trends for 1996.  In PDF format. [Free, register]




**Other ICSA Security Reports can be found at http://www.trusecure.com/knowledge/whitepapers/

IDC also offers excellent (although fee based) eBusiness and Internet trends reports.   For more information, see http://www.idc.com/press/release.stm#eb

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