Spyware ‘not a problem’
p2pnet.net News:- Seventy percent of IT managers say spyware isn’t a problem" or if it is, it’s only a "minor" one.
That’s the bottom line in a survey from Secure Computing documenting the attitudes of enterprise IT managers on the dangers of "emerging Internet-based threats" such as spyware, p2p file-sharing software, instant messaging (IM), and personal email accounts resulting from "unauthorized employee activities".
"Spyware is often acquired unwittingly by employees when they install p2p file sharing applications," says the survey.
"The RIAA has already pursued legal action against an Arizona company, winning a $1 million settlement after employees were found to have downloaded thousands of music files on company computers," says the company. "Yet 90 percent of businesses saw file-sharing software as not a major problem, and a surprising 40 percent saw it as ‘no problem’."
Instant messaging and personal email accounts are often cited by security experts as sources of data loss, information leaks and the backdoor entrance into networks for viruses and worms, it continues, goin gon that a 2004 study by Opinion Research found 62% of respondents who use IM at work do so for non-work reasons, and yet, "90 percent saw IM as no problem or a minor problem, and 80 percent felt personal e-mail accounts were no problem or a minor problem".
