CIOs Weigh Security Opinions with Federal Counterparts in CDW-G Report

Recent survey results reveal that federal IT professionals grappled with more cyber-attacks in 2009 than they did in 2008, and that more than half of their agencies experienced a cyber-security incident at least weekly, but when one city chief information security officer (CISO) read that, he wasn't sure if the respondents were in agreement over what an "incident" actually is. CDW-G surveyed 150 federal civilian and 150 federal defense IT respondents to gauge their experiences in the ever-changing cyber-security landscape and published the results on Nov. 10, 2009, in the 2009 CDW-G Federal Cybersecurity Report: Danger on the Front Lines. Twenty-three percent said their network faced cyber-security incidents at least weekly, and 31 percent said daily.