Brain dump

Last week I’ve participated in the RSA conference representing Cyber-Ark. It turned out to be a pretty busy week (your sympathy is appreciated).

This week as a slightly different exercise, we will switch roles (let’s call it un-blog post). Instead of me describing my insights, I will provide some raw data from the conference in a form of a brain dump. If any of this makes any sense to you please comment or ping me with your insights.

As with any brain dump - no order, priority or importance, just partial list of raw numbers/”facts”:

• Server Virtualization penetration in enterprise is estimated at 25%
• 6% of ID theft comes from password guessing
• IT spend 2/3 of their budgets on maintenance
• CIO survey – for 51% security is the greatest concern surrounding cloud computing adoption
• Information growth - 60% per year
• 1B mobile devices will be accessing the internet by the end of the year
• Survey of 2,100 companies (CIO, IT, CSO, etc.):

          - Over the last 12 months 75% experienced cyber attack
          - 100% experienced cyber lose in 2009
          - Top 3 stolen “items”:

                   1. Theft of IP

                   2. Financial/credit card data
                   3. Customer PII

• During 2008 – 1.6M signatures (like previous 17 years combined)
• During 2009 – 2.9M signatures
• Customers said from their entire data only 1% matters
• 40% of employees private machines access work resources
• 10% of private machines are the primary working machine
• Some organization promoting personal devices for work (subsidize)
• Per Gartner – organization can save 9-40% on equipment cost
• Data breach - average loss per record is $204
• Data breach - average loss per incident is $6.75M
• 70% of physicians are afraid to place customer data in the cloud
• 56% of the malware written today is designed to steal data
• 42% of data breaches involve a 3rd party (service provider, consultant, etc.)
• Since 2008 there are more mobile devices accessing the internet than “fixed” devices
• By the end of 2011 there will be 5B users out of 6.8B people in the world…
• Projected data traffic increased 2009-2014 is by 3900%
• Videos will be 66% of mobile traffic by 2013
• Organization leveraging Amazon cloud services usually have one super admin account to purchase and manage their infrastructure:

          - It is a shared account
          - It is a standard Amazon account and can be used to purchase books or anything else…

As an epilogue to get your CPU working a quote by Marc Benioff:

“Why isn’t all enterprise software like Facebook?” It was the next iteration of the question he asked in 1999 (that spawned salesforce.com), “Why isn’t all enterprise software like Amazon.com.”