Of the 148 companies surveyed, only 32 per cent believe that business to consumer transactions are secure. But these latest findings show that external hackers, former employees and organised crime now represent the biggest danger.
Across Europe, 28 per cent of companies surveyed have no measures in place to protect them against the new breed of 'blended threat' - such as Sobig and Blaster. The findings are the result of a Europe-wide survey conducted by security vendor MacAfee.
In fact, 82 per cent of companies surveyed acknowledged that removable media does pose a threat to their networks. According to the findings, 84 per cent of companies have no policies in place to prevent employees using any removable media.
Around half the companies surveyed do not sign up staff to an internet and email usage policy. Latest research reveals the majority of IT bosses are confident about their companies' security yet when drilling down through the findings we find a...
And bearing in mind the 'insider job' is still the commonest form of corporate fraud there is room for improvement there. Other findings, opinions and statistics which came to light over the course of the year suggest companies are doing too little...
Twelve per cent of breaches it investigated had some form of malicious intent - an insider, code, hacked systems. Of 482 large businesses surveyed by Computer Associates, 62 per cent were holding sensitive, regulated data such as credit card...