On 19-Feb-2003 John Brightwell wrote:
Are there any sites out there with the facts and figures about internal exploits and cautionary tales about disgruntled employees or IT savvy nighttime cleaners?
It's hard to find such information, since companies are reluctant to make it public. Here are a couple of links which might be useful:
http://www.gocsi.com/press/20020407.html
This is a press release by the "Computer Security Institute" which contains a few interesting statistics, and from the page you can request a free copy of their "2002 Computer Crime and Security Survey", which includes some information about percent of surveyed attacks from "inside".
You might also check out the HoneyPot Project, at
http://project.honeynet.org/
They provide a number of "Know Your Enemy..." papers, including "Know Your Enemy: Statistics"
http://project.honeynet.org/papers/stats/
which may offer some insight into the problems a firewall might have to face, in terms of what the "blackhat" community may throw at it.
My view: firewalls are necessary but not sufficient (unless you really *enjoy* forensic analysis).
i'm not sure about internal exploits, but these sites are a good place to start:
dshield.org incidents.org cert.org sans.org
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