Are you managing for cybercrime?

As a manager, your to-do list gets longer every day. You must keep your IT shop operating efficiently, make sure the budget is on track and prepare for post-recession growth. However, some managers are coming up short when it comes to protecting against cybercrime. Despite the constant drumbeat about cyberattacks and the need to protect your systems, a new survey finds that IT execs are not as concerned about bigger cyberthreats as they should be.

The 2010 CyberSecurity Watch Survey finds that CIOs are thinking about the low-hanging fruit--hackers, insiders and foreign entities. The survey, sponsored by Deloitte, says that the biggest damage comes from attackers from nation-states and organized crime. And executives should be focusing on these criminals more than the more obvious culprits.

The question really becomes this: Just how much money should you throw at this problem? It depends on how much you have, what's stored in your databases and what kind of damage these big attacks could cause.

It's not an easy issue to tackle every day, but if you don't have cybersecurity at the top of your list, you should put it there right now.

For more on this survey:
- see this cnet.com article

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