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News Archive- 31 March 2006

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31 March 2006: Staff misusing the Internet by accessing inappropriate websites remains the second largest cause of reported security incidents after viruses for large UK companies, according to findings from the 2006 Department of Trade and Industry’s biennial Information Security Breaches Survey.

The survey went on to say that some 90% of all companies said protecting their reputation was one of the most important drivers for information security. Yet despite this, the majority of organisations still do nothing to audit or monitor for staff accessing digital pornography.

In order to assess their level of risk, companies need to understand the Severity, Likelihood and Visibility of the risk.

Severity: the severity of an illicit incident is typically high and can range from criminalisation through civil law suits to breach of corporate compliance.

Likelihood: The ICT fraud and abuse 2004 study by the UK Audit Commission said that “ICT abuse continues to rise and survey respondents generally felt more vulnerable in their use of ICTs”. According to the Audit Commission’s findings the highest growth of ICT incidents in the workplace is access of inappropriate material.

Visibility: According to the 2006 Department of Trade and Industry’s biennial Information Security Breaches Survey, Only 1 in 6 companies scan for illicit content in emails. The worry for the others is what is slipping through the net via email, internet and other routes such as USB key, digital camera or mobile phone.

How can PixAlert Help?

In just one day, PixAlert can undertake a ‘Discovery Audit in which PixAlert will scan a subset of your corporate network desktops, servers and email files for illicit image content in order to provide you with Visibility of the scale of digital pornography on your network. PixAlert will also provide you with a report assessing the Likelihood and Severity of inappropriate image material on your network based upon the image material found.

This is a FREE service provided by PixAlert to selected companies^*. If you are interested in a FREE 1 Day Discovery Audit please contact Hadley Weir on +353 1 7078860 or via email at hadley.weir@pixalert.com.

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