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Quelle: Computerworld.ch

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Quelle: Report Sicherheit 2015

Quelle: Report Sicherheit 2015

When analysing our previous survey results in terms of the percentage of Swiss companies affected by economic crime, we noted that this year we returned to the trends evident in 2005 and 2007 [Figure 2]. Interestingly, during that period we were experiencing favourable economic conditions, so the number of reported fraud cases is what we expected to see from our surveys in 2009 and 2011 during an economic downturn.

As mentioned at the time, during a period of recession the fraud rate tends to increase; however, we notice that this may not be the case in Switzerland as the opposite in fact occurred. The reason for this could be that, although there is more pressure and incentive to commit fraud in an economic downturn, there is also less opportunity to do so because of the decreased availability of assets in circulation and the tendency of companies to reduce their headcount. On one hand, the declining headcount may have affected internal functions that are traditionally responsible for fraud detection, such as internal audit, controlling or compliance, and therefore weakened their ability to effectively detect fraud incidents. On the other hand, however, this wave of layoffs may also have hit potential and actual fraudsters, thereby depriving them of the possibility to commit fraud. Furthermore, the 2014 results are more in line with the global trends, where 37% of respondents experienced economic crime in the past 24 months compared to 34% of respondents from Western Europe.

In our 2014 survey we see a significant increase in fraud where 37% of our respondents experienced incidents of economic crime in contrast to 18% in 2011 [Figure 1]. Some of this shift may be attributable to the shorter length of time surveyed in 2011 (12 months) in comparison to 2014 (24 months), which gave companies more time and, therefore, more opportunity to detect fraudulent incidents. If the perpetrator is skilful in covering his tracks, it may often take companies several months before the wrongdoing is unearthed.

The study, “The Risk of Regulated Data on Mobile Devices & in the Cloud,” which surveyed 781 IT and data security practitioners, found that 33 percent of respondents said that they need to access protected health information (PHI) to do their work and yet few understood how to keep data secure. For example, 15 percent of those surveyed knew about HIPAA’s security requirements, but 33 percent of respondents indicated that they work for a HIPAA covered entity.

The dependency on technology has brought the world of cyber threats closer to Switzerland. Even as economic conditions continue to deteriorate around Switzerland, the cyber threat to the country will continue to increase. Nation states, activists and criminals will all use the communication pathways created by the government and Internet service providers (ISPs) to exploit Switzerland’s national infrastructure, businesses, and government entities. In cyber space there are no borders. To date there have been no catastrophic cyber attacks on Switzerland, but based on events over the past five years we know the cyber threat has reached our networks.

Ferdinand Kobelt, Leiter Informationssicherheit Verteidigung (CISO V), VBS
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