According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics 2001-2002:
p 86 per cent of businesses with computers recorded the use of some form of IT security;
p the most common form of Internet security was anti-virus software or a virus scanner (80 per cent), with other forms of IT security less prevalent;
p 41 per cent of companies that use computers reported a security breach or incident during the past 12 months;
p viruses were the most common security incident (38 per cent), 15 per cent reported a Trojan or worm incident;
p 35 per cent of businesses reported no impact of a security breach, however 46 per cent reported a down time in service, 37 per cent reported a corruption of hardware or software, 27 per cent reported corruption or loss of data, and 2 per cent reported web site defacement; and
p security breaches were mainly from people outside of the organisation (80 per cent) and 18 per cent of businesses did not know the source of the security breach.
Now you’re talking
RECENT META Group research has found that 80 per cent of US-based business people prefer to communicate via email rather than telephone. A recent online survey of 387 US businesses showed that 74 per cent of respondents believe being without email would present bigger problems than being without a phone. The top three reasons why business people preferred email communication were: email facilitates communication with multiple parties; email enables more rapid communication; and email generates a written record of the interaction.
