Useless Security Statistics
By Davey Winder in Editorial
Posted in Security on
Here is a thought for all those within the IT security business that compile these detailed monthly statistics: is there any real world point? This might come as a surprise to anyone who knows me, after all much of my professional life is spent within the IT security sphere and keeping a virtual finger on the trends pulse is vital in order to hone ones understanding of the threat landscape. Actually, no it is not. At least not to the level of granularity that I need to know which worm has done the most damage last month, or the percentage point change in the activity of a particular Trojan from one month to the next.
There might be a little more point to them if the statistics actually agreed with one another, but every single set differs to the extent that not only are they in different ballparks but I suspect that they are playing different games entirely.
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