A recent study published by 7Safe, UK Security Breach Investigations Report , analyzed 62 cybercrime breach investigation and states that in “86% of all attacks, a weakness in a web interface was exploited ” (vs 14% infrastructure) and the attackers were predominately external (80%). These results are largely consistent with the US-based Verizon Data Breach Incident Report (2008) which tracks over 500 cases

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Infrastructure vs. Application Security Spending