2009 Cisco Annual Security Report

Today we are releasing the 2009 Cisco Annual Security Report, which pulls together a full year’s worth of cyber security-focused collaboration from across the entire Cisco Security Intelligence Operations team. The 2009 Cisco Annual Security Report is a comprehensive look back at the year’s highlights with an eye towards what we can expect to see going forward.
Throughout 2009 we saw a host of new threat developments, gripping front line skirmishes, inspirational cases of the White Hats locking arms to combat evil, and alarming new levels of cybercrime audacity and sophistication.
With this report the Cisco Security team is introducing new tools to help customers better assess the evolving threat landscape. To address IT security professionals’ demands for better insights on the threat pipeline, we are introducing The Cisco Cybercrime Return on Investment Matrix (CROI), which is a framework for quickly assessing techniques and business models criminals will be investing and divesting from. Uniquely, the CROI Matrix is built from the perspective of the cybercriminal and how they rate their portfolio of scams and techniques from an investment perspective. We believe this approach is fundamental to understanding how the threat landscape will look in the coming year.