{"id":862,"date":"2016-03-08T21:21:36","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T21:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/54.201.249.27\/?p=862"},"modified":"2016-03-08T21:21:36","modified_gmt":"2016-03-08T21:21:36","slug":"defense-systems-nation-states-overtake-insiders-as-dods-top-cyber-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackopspartners.com\/defense-systems-nation-states-overtake-insiders-as-dods-top-cyber-threats\/","title":{"rendered":"Defense Systems: Nation-states overtake insiders as DOD’s top cyber threats"},"content":{"rendered":"
Activity by foreign governments has surpassed inept insiders as the biggest source of IT security threats, according to Defense Department IT pros responding to a new survey.<\/p>\n
The\u00a0third annual survey<\/a>\u00a0by IT management software company SolarWinds took a look at cybersecurity across the federal landscape, but also broke out results for DOD, whose respondents made up about 45 percent of those surveyed.<\/p>\n When asked to identify the greatest sources of IT security threats, 62 percent of DOD respondents identified foreign governments, with careless\/untrained insiders identified by 51 percent. The big change was for foreign governments, which in last year\u2019s survey was named by 48 percent. And although careless insiders may now be in second place, they\u2019re still seen as a threat, falling only from 53 percent last year to 51 percent this year.<\/p>\n Other threats included the general hacking community (35 percent), hacktivists (32 percent), terrorists (27 percent), malicious insiders (23 percent) and industrial spies (20 percent).<\/p>\n