Security Insights with Web 2.0

USA. USA A study on Web 2.0 security, sponsored by Secure Computing Corporation and conducted by Forrester Consulting, revealed that although the use of Web 2.0 is prevalent in companies, they are not prepared to deal with the potential attacks associated with the technology. The study, applied to more than 153 IT professionals and security decision makers at companies with at least 1,000 employees, found that more than half of the organizations surveyed spent more than $25,000 in the last fiscal year. due to malicious software. Other revealing data: frequent malware attacks (79%), concern about the attack of viruses (79% of respondents) and Trojans (77%), but little by botnets, or bot networks, (12%), despite their runaway expansion. Other concerns are data loss prevention (92%) and data leakage (58%). In contrast, the prevention measures for the loss of information installed reach only 33% of respondents.