Corporate PC Users Ignore Phishing Risks

According to an online survey of 1,200 corporate end users in the US, Germany and Japan, most corporate users are rather complacent about the risk of viruses, phishing, spam and spyware because they tend to depend on their IT department to take care of the security issues.

The survey said that 39% corporate users believe that the IT department will prevent them from outside security threats so they tend to have an attitude that they are relatively safe to take risks and can surf the Web in ways that they perhaps won’t at home. In U.S. 40% of workers said that they are more likely to open suspicious e-mail or click on links that they normally won’t at home. The assumption is that the IT would have already taken precautions so they can’t really do much harm. And if they did, IT can always come to the rescue.

Obviously, this is bad news for the companies and one more reason to tighten all-around security on the network with Group Policies and other methods to protect your organization from security disasters. The study that I mentioned above was conducted in July by IT security firm Trend Micro.