Most infrastructure providers victims of cyber attacks?
By siliconindia   |   Thursday, 07 October 2010, 14:34 IST
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Most infrastructure providers victims of cyber attacks?
Bangalore: Cyberattacks have become a fact for life for companies these days, and according to a survey by security company Symantec, almost half of those who work in critical infrastructure firms worldwide think that their company would be a victim of computer attack over the next year, reports Elinor Mills of Cnet News. The survey, titled 'Symantec 2010 Critical Infrastructure Protection Study', interviewed 1,580 private businesses that are in industries that are considered critical infrastructure providers. The survey said that about one-third of the respondents say that their company is well set to deal with the threat. On the other hand, 36 to 41 percent of the respondents say their company is "somewhat" prepared to deal with attacks that range from attempted theft and modification or destruction of data to shutting down computer networks and manipulating physical equipment through control networks, revealed the survey. There are 6 to 9 percent respondents who also think that their companies are "extremely unprepared" to deal with those various attacks. According to the results of the survey that had been done across 15 countries in August, the respondents from the energy industry felt the most prepared and those in communications industry felt least prepared to deal with attacks. While 44 percent of the respondents said that the number of cyberattacks is increasing day by day, 38 percent said the number of attacks remains steady. One of the key findings of the survey was that in the last five years, each company had been attacked 10 times on an average and it cost them an average of $850,000 each. "Customers need to do their part for the safety of the ecosystem too, by keeping their security software up to date and patching other programs," said Justin Somaini, Symantec's Chief Information Security Officer. The Stuxnet worm that targeted energy companies around the world represents a recent example of a threat designed to spy on and reprogram industrial control systems, said Somaini.

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