Appendix C. CyberSecurity Watch Survey

To properly allocate information security resources and budgets, organizations need to know the prevalence of insider threat, especially as compared to outsider threat.

In 2004 we decided that we should develop another method for measuring the prevalence of malicious insider incidents across the United States. Therefore, we partnered with CSO Magazine and the Secret Service to conduct the first annual CyberSecurity Watch Survey. The survey has been a successful method for gathering information regarding electronic crimes, techniques, best practices, and emerging trends; therefore, we have continued to conduct the survey on an annual basis1 [CSO 2011a].

1. Note that in some years Deloitte and Microsoft also ...

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