Computer Economics developed and conducted a survey on IT security perceptions, awareness, and practices during May and June of 2002. Because of the news coverage about cyberattacks and the various alerts by the FBI, we decided to ask survey respondents about their views on cyberattacks. It appears that most people have received the message about the cyberthreat.
Considerably more people think that large-scale cyberattacks will be launched by terrorists in less than two years (69.6%) than think that large-scale cyberattacks will be launched by a military in less than two years (48.4%). Figure 1 shows the responses for the questions about when large-scale cyberattacks will occur.
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Even though the majority of responders think that cyberattacks are imminent and will come in less than two years, far fewer think that their country (9.4%) or their organization (36.1%) are prepared to defend against cyberattacks. Figure 2 shows what respondents think about the preparation to defend against cyberattacks.
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August 2002
