Secure Computing Corporation has announced the results of an independent survey documenting the amount of time enterprise IT managers are spending on security, as well as their levels of concern about spyware, phishing, hacking and spam during the previous 12 months. The survey, titled, “Running to Keep Up: Businesses Address the New Security Risks,” was conducted for Secure Computing by TheInfoPro, Inc., an independent research firm. The study surveyed 102 enterprise IT managers across a broad variety of industries in April 2005 and is available at http://www.securecomputing.com/goto/runningtokeepup.
The study found that IT managers are mostly spending more time on security, with 72 percent spending “more” or “significantly more” time addressing security needs, the study found. Twenty-four percent were spending “about the same” amount of time and just five percent were spending less time.
Among the report’s findings were that 79 percent of IT managers were “more concerned” about employee workstations being infected with spyware than they were last year. The study also found that 59 percent of IT managers were “more concerned” about employees visiting phishing sites. Far fewer IT managers were more concerned about spam — just 27 percent. A much larger number, 45 percent were actually less concerned.
