Vendor math doesn’t add up on federal security priorities

According to a new report sponsored by an IT performance management software vendor, federal agencies aren’t spending as much as they should on battling internal threats — the kinds of threats the vendor’s software is designed to help protect against.

But the recommendations were based on misleading interpretations of the results of the survey of 200 federal IT professionals who were asked about both internal and external threats and their security spending priorities.

“What was surprising was that they identified careless and untrained insiders was one of the biggest threats, where the investment was focused was on the external side,” said Chris LaPoint, VP of product management at Austin-based SolarWinds Inc., the vendor that sponsored the survey.

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