Monday, November 5, 2007

Users are a bigger headache than hackers: survey

IT managers are more concerned about end-user abuse of IT systems than attacks from hackers and other threats, according to new research.

The 2007 State of Security Report, sponsored by security vendor Websense, surveyed 158 employees and 159 IT managers at Australian companies with more than 50 staff.

Managing end-user online activity is the most frustrating part of the IT manager role, according to the survey, which found 59% of surveyed companies do not block peer-to-peer file sharing, while 47% don't enforce internet usage policies through filtering applications.

Budget constraints were the second highest concern, and were reported by 48% of IT managers. Other conceerns cited include lax attention to security (25%) and ease of deployment (18%).

Source: Computer World (NZ)

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