Gartner Survey: viruses and worms are the biggest security threats to IT managers

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[CCID news] Beijing Time on June 19 News, according to Gartner's latest survey results show that viruses and worms are the biggest security threats facing IT managers.

Among the various security threats, viruses and worms pose a headache for IT managers. External attacks ranked second, identity theft and phishing attacks ranked third, while cyber-terrorism ranked last among the eleven security threats.

However, as security awareness increases, 70% of respondents said their system was stronger than a year ago. According to the survey, firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and anti-virus software are the preferred products for IT managers to prevent viruses.

50% of respondents said they had increased IT security spending over the past six months and this trend will continue until next year. Among them, patch management, remote access, and risk assessment will be the focus of their IT overhead. More than 50% of users are willing to purchase different security products from different vendors.

Although IT managers are busy defending against external attacks, Conall Lavery, managing director of entropy, said internal defense is also crucial to enterprise network security, in particular, some employees use laptops or other mobile devices.

In recent months, several high-risk viruses have plagued enterprises, such as mytob, Bagle, and sober worms. On May this year, Bank of Ireland suffered a phishing attack and the TV3 website was also hacked by Iranian protesters.

In addition, spyware also brings a lot of trouble to enterprises. According to a recent report, 87% of enterprise PCs are implanted with spyware.