Experts Complacent About Network Attacks: Study Shows Physical Attacks to Communications Network Infrastructure Deemed Low Priority Risk

Industry experts and researchers may be underestimating the threat to Internet security posed by physical attacks to telecommunications infrastructure, according to new research.

Only nine percent of industry experts and researchers who responded to an international survey considered physical attacks to the infrastructure to be a likely threat to future Internet security.
Top of their worry list was data misuse followed by more network-oriented issues such as malicious traffic attacks or data integrity on the network itself.

The results, pulled together by an international partnership led by Lancaster University, showed that 33 per cent of industry leaders and researchers put breaches of trust within companies and misuse of personal information -- for example through Facebook or e-banking -- as their number one internet security concern.

The threat of malicious network traffic attacks came second (27 per cent), while vulnerabilities in emerging Cloud environments due to reduced ownership of resources and data came third (18 per cent).

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