IT-backed Workers Take More Net Risks

Iria · Sep 14, 2005, 09:10 PM

Workers are more like to indulge in risky Internet behavior -- surfing to unknown or even suspicious sites, for example -- when they have an IT department behind them to clean up their mess, a recently released study claims.

According to the July study -- which was released Tuesday by Tokyo-based Trend Micro and based on polls of 1,200 users, 400 each in the U.S., Germany, and Japan -- 39 percent of enterprise workers believed that their company's IT department would keep them safe from viruses, worms, spyware, spam, and phishing and pharming attacks.

That confidence, whether on the mark or misplaced, leads workers to do risky, even stupid, things at work, such as opening questionable e-mail messages or clicking on unknown Web site links.
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Iria DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 7,275 Rep Power: 89	IT-backed Workers Take More Net Risks Workers are more like to indulge in risky Internet behavior -- surfing to unknown or even suspicious sites, for example -- when they have an IT department behind them to clean up their mess, a recently released study claims. According to the July study -- which was released Tuesday by Tokyo-based Trend Micro and based on polls of 1,200 users, 400 each in the U.S., Germany, and Japan -- 39 percent of enterprise workers believed that their company's IT department would keep them safe from viruses, worms, spyware, spam, and phishing and pharming attacks. That confidence, whether on the mark or misplaced, leads workers to do risky, even stupid, things at work, such as opening questionable e-mail messages or clicking on unknown Web site links. __________ Read More / Source: TechWeb