Wednesday, September 23, 2009

SANS September 2009 Report - The Top Cyber Security Risks

A report titled “The Top Cyber Security Risks” was recently released by SANS and TippingPoint that may be useful for background on the current internet security risks.

You are encouraged to review findings in this report if you have the time.

http://www.sans.org/top-cyber-security-risks/

Notable in the report is that vulnerabilities within applications now exceed more traditional OS level vulnerabilities.

That said, the security community is mixed on the findings as we would like to see more supporting data as evidenced by this post:

http://newschoolsecurity.com/2009/09/making-sense-of-the-sans-top-cyber-security-risks-report/