Monday, February 15, 2010

The Cyber Playing Field -- Stats And Numbers

The World Wide Web

Unconstrained Cyberspace Domain -- Defense Tech

Back in 2007, U.S. Air Force officials openly stated that cyberspace as a war-​​fighting domain. At that time the statement attracted little attention. Today, cyberspace has rapidly evolved into a key domain similar context to land, air, and sea for military conflict. This evolution has occurred at a pace few had anticipated. The US Department of Defense defines cyberspace as a “domain characterized by the use of electronics and the electromagnetic spectrum (EMS) to store, modify, and exchange data via networked systems and associated physical infrastructures.”

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My Comment: The key numbers are the following ....

Internet Metrics


* By the end of 2010 there will be over 1.9 billion Internet users worldwide.
* By the end of 2010 there will be over 100 billion email per day.
* By the end of 2010 there will be over 3.3 billion cell phones users with Internet access.
* By the end of 2010 there will be over 265 million web sites.
* By the end of 2010 there will be tens of millions of non-​​tradition computing systems connected to the Internet.
* By the end of 2010 there will be over 130 million blogs.
* By the end of 2010 there will be over 34 billion images uploaded on Facebook annually
* In 2009 a new piece of malware was released on the Internet every 1.25 seconds.
* In 2009 there were 90 trillion emails sent over the Internet with an estimated 81 percent being spam.
* In 2009 YouTube served over 1 billion videos per day on average.
* In 2009 there were over 1 trillion unique URLs in Google’s index.
* In 2009 there were over 47 million new web sites added.
* In 2009 approximately $27 billion was spent online from November 1st through Christmas Eve.

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