CSI's Annual Crime and Security Survey will be released December 1st in conjunction with this Webcast.
Respondents reported significant jumps in the incidences of:
Financial fraud: 19.5 percent, over 12 percent last year (avg: $450,000)
Malware Infection: 64.3 percent, over 50 percent last year;
Denials of Service: 29.2 percent, over 21 percent last year,
Password Sniffing: 17.3 percent, over 9 percent last year); and
Web site Defacement: 13.5 percent, over 6 percent last year.
CSI Computer Crime & Security Survey Webcast
Date: Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Time: 11AM PT/ 2PM ET
Duration: 60-minutes
The CSI Computer Crime & Security Survey is the world's most widely quoted research on computer crime. This webcast, moderated by CSI Director Robert Richardson, will feature survey project leader and CSI senior editor Sara Peters, who will discuss the findings of the 2009 Survey and what they mean. Peters will discuss the incidence of unauthorized access, attack sources and types, the financial impact on organizations and actions taken. She will also discuss the economic decisions organizations make regarding computer security, and the way they manage the risk associated with security breaches. The presentation will also present some findings from the premium version of the survey report, generally only available to CSI members.
Featured Speakers
Sara Peters, Senior Editor, CSI  |
 Senior Editor Sara Peters joined the Computer Security Institute in 2005, taking on a security beat that includes both policy issues (like Web vulnerability disclosure legislation and the compliance in the cloud) and technological issues like virtualization and browser security). Additionally, Sara founded the CSI Working Group on Web Security Research Law and authored the group’s inaugural report. Prior to her work in information security, she served as associate director of communications at Princeton University's School of Engineering and Applied Science, writing and editing their quarterly magazine. She began her reporting career in a small newspaper chain after graduating from Rutgers University with a B.A. degree in journalism. |
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| Robert Richardson, Director, CSI |
 Robert Richardson has served as Director at CSI since 2003, having worked IT in various capacities for twenty years. He's given keynote presentations on three continents, often speaking about the CSI Computer Crime and Security Survey. Prior to CSI, Richardson served as Senior Editor of CMP's Communications Convergence magazine for two years and has contributed to magazines and Web publications such as Ziff-Davis Internet Computing, BYTE, Network Magazine, and Small Business Computing. Based outside Philadelphia, he occasionally serves as an adjunct teacher of computer science at Swarthmore College. |
