[iwar] [fc:EDS.chief:.prepare.for.cybercrime.wave]

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Date: 2001-11-04 20:33:02

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EDS chief: prepare for cybercrime wave

By Antony Savvas, CW 360, 11/2/2001
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The war in Afghanistan will create a massive wave of cyber crime, and
the UK is ill equipped to cope.

That was the claim made by David Spinks, European director of
information assurance at outsourcing giant EDS, at this week's TMA
conference in Brighton.

"Business continuity planning and security is not about installing the
latest new firewall or other solution, but anticipating what could
happen," Spinks said.

"My warning to businesses is that if the drugs trade is stalled as a
result of the war, the people involved in this trade will step up their
efforts in other areas like cybercrime."

Spinks claimed UK authorities were poorly equipped to deal with the
threat. The national police computer forensics team only has 15 staff
and a budget of Ł25m over five years, he said.

These resources would be lucky to pay for one or two major cybercrime
cases a year at the most, Spinks added.

"It's important that the problems and the threats are realised at board
level," the EDS boss told delegates.

If you ask board members and system administrators the same question
about whether they have been victims of attacks, you will get a
completely different percentage between the two. System administrators
often know the risks, but they need more support from company heads to
deal with the problem."

Spinks called for an open exchange of information about attacks, and
said a co-ordinated effort between business and the authorities is the
way forward in achieving this.

He revealed that enquiries received by EDS about business continuity and
information protection plans had gone up well over 100% following the 11
September attacks on the US and the start of the war in Afghanistan.

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