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09.15.05
The
Phishing's Good At Work
 By
David Utter
A Trend Micro study suggests people engage in far more risky business at work
than they do at home.
People who would never think of clicking on links in suspicious emails from their
home PCs have no trouble doing so from their work-provided machine. The study
of 1,200 online survey respondents found 39 percent clutching to the belief that
their IT department protects them from being victimized online by phishing scams,
or infected by spyware.
That boldness comes from the belief that security measures taken by corporate
IT departments will safeguard their bad browsing behavior. Out of the percentage
mentioned, three in five people click on links, visit sites, or open emails they
wouldn't normally do otherwise.
The survey's responses contain results from US, German, and Japanese users. US
system and network administrators really won't like this US-specific number: one
out of three engage in that bad behavior because the computer doesn't belong to
them.
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It seems that efforts to educate end users on the threats of the Internet either
have failed to take or are simply disregarded. That indication probably means
enterprises will have to spend more money on centralized threat management solutions
and security policy enforcement.
Within publicly-traded firms in the US, end users who don't think beyond the computer
in their cubicles probably don't really realize the true concern. Failing to safeguard
corporate data means a company could run afoul of the federal government, due
to the Sarbanes-Oxley act, if it flunks an audit.
About the Author:
David Utter is a staff writer for WebProNews covering technology and business.
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