โ Scribed by Sarah Hilley
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
P aranoia pays. That's the conclusion one can draw from the results of a survey of 20,000 British IT security professionals conducted in January.
The survey, by the trade newspaper Computer Weekly, showed that IT shops face constant threats from the MyDoom virus and its variants, and must also cope with almost daily updates and patches from Microsoft and other software vendors.
This makes it a golden time for computer security managers. And they have risen to the challenge.
Most companies surveyed feel safe. This feeling of relative comfort stems from some serious planning. But smugness is misplaced. Less than half of the respondents have escaped a security breach, and more than a third were cracked in the past year.
According to the survey, more than four out of five companies regard viruses, worms or Trojans as the biggest threat to their businesses Given that the survey took place just before MyDoom arrived, this seems prescient.
The next most mentioned threats are data theft, cited by a third, and spam, by nearly two out of five. When asked specifically about denial
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