By Simon Quicke10 September 2008
It seems to have taken a fairly long time for the message to
get through to customers but finally the vast majority understand criminals are
behind security attacks.
The days of the lonely teenage virus writer are long gone
and with 91% of companies reporting that they perceive cyber crime to be a
major risk in a Finjan survey customers appear to have accepted that.
According to the vendor’s Q2 Trend Report the awareness of
data theft is not far behind an understanding that cyber criminals are involved
in the market.
”As the Web has become the major malware infection channel,
crimeware-filtering capability has become a critical component in
organizations’ Web security strategy,” said Yuval Ben-Itzhak, chief technology officer
at Finjan.
“Our web security survey report provides an important
insight on how organizations perceive cyber crime today and their preferred
solution to prevent it.,” he added.
Security vendors have been pushing the cyber crime message
for a fair while, including at events like InfoSec,but it has taken a fair
while for the message to sink in among users.
