Websense Inc., an international company leading in data-theft safeguard and content security, recently assigned Dynamic Markets an independent research company to conduct a poll on 1,000 non-IT employees and IT managers each, within Australia, Canada, USA and UK, regarding the most recent attacks targeting personal as well as corporate security, including today's APTs (Advanced Persistent Threats) and other malware.
The poll captioned "Security Pros & Cons: Canadian IT professionals on Confidence, Confidential Data and Today's Cyber-cons" was conducted for solving queries like in what way IT-managers were tackling modern, rapidly-shifting threat landscape; was there adequate safeguard for them from the latest Trojans for data-theft; as also would employees inform the managers incase corporate data was compromised.
Consequently, it emerged from the poll that merely 2 persons out of every 100 posted secret details onto social-networking websites; however, 23% of IT-managers confirmed such activities happening. Further one employee out of a total 100 had allowed malicious content onto their organizations' network-of-computers; however, 32% of IT-managers had observed such a thing happen. Moreover, the situation became even bad, incase employees did inadvertently cause data-compromise at their organizations with say 30% not informing the higher authorities.
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