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Security Professionals Rank Cyber Attacks As Top Threat, Survey Finds

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Thursday, June 10th, 2010

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Cyber attacks rank as the top threat to the country's security followed by terrorist activity, according to a survey of more than 250 security professionals taken by the security services firm USIS. In its survey, Single Point of Security Coordination Drives Accountability/Risk Mitigation, USIS says 70 percent of respondents ranked cyber attacks as the greatest threat to the United States, with terrorist activity coming in at 35 percent. Next up were insider threats, 31 percent, followed by information security breaches,…

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