http://www.techworld.com/security/news/index.cfm?newsID=106902



By Robert McMillan

IDG News Service

11 November 2008



Computer systems that run the world's critical infrastructure are not as 

secure as they should be and insiders are feeling angry.



That's according to a new survey released Monday that asked management, 

network engineers and administrators in nine infrastructure industries 

about the state of cyber security in the US, Canada, and Europe.



Insiders felt that all of these industries, save financial services, 

were unprepared for cyberattacks. These unready industries included: 

water, utilities, oil and gas, telecommunications, transportation, 

emergency services, chemical and the shipping industry.



And that's bad news because more than half of them said that their 

companies had already been hit with some sort of cyber incident, data 

leak, or insider attack. Another 14 percent said they were expecting 

something like this to happen in the next year.



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Received on Tue Nov 11 2008 - 02:02:15 PST