Security problems led to the British business last year, the loss of tens of billions of pounds

EST on April 25th (Beijing time April 26th) news: according to a survey released Tuesday showed that due to safety problems caused by computer viruses, spyware, hackers and theft of equipment to the British business community in the loss of billions of pounds last year.

According to a survey by the British PricewaterhouseCoopers consultancy commissioned by the Ministry of trade and industry and the results show that the expected last year due to security problems caused by a loss of $18 billion (about $10 billion), compared with growth of 50% left and right at this level and two years ago.

Although the companies spend more and more on information security control, now the average has reached 4% to 5% of the company's IT budget, but the loss associated with security issues are still growing. In 2004, the company's investment in information security control accounted for about 3% of their IT budget.

The study found that there is a security concern that employees must remember the names and passwords more and more.

The study found that the average employee must remember three different user names and passwords, of which 2% of employees must even remember the names and passwords of the 10 different.

The number of user names and passwords that users must remember, the greater the likelihood of an unauthorized access, the report said."

In contrast, some of the large, strong sense of safety security problems in quantity and safety problems of the cost control cost is reduced, but for a small company safety awareness is relatively weak, the number of accidents not only increased, and the company spent on the issue of security cost is also rising.

The survey also asked how much of the company's losses caused by the most serious security incidents last year. For large companies, the average loss is between $116 thousand and $232 thousand.

For small companies, the average loss is between $14 thousand and $30 thousand.

British industry minister Alun Michael said that although most companies report that safety accidents last year than in 2004 when less, but it cannot be big with pride.

He said: the loss caused by a variety of security attacks as the severity of the attack is on the rise, which is the importance of appropriate security measures."

In fact, all British companies use anti-virus software, but 1/4 of the companies simply can not resist the latest spyware invasion, resulting in a large number of confidential information stolen.

There are about 1/5 enterprise wireless network is completely without any protective measures, in addition to the 1/5 enterprise wireless network is not encrypted at the time of operation, resulting in many intruders could eavesdrop on the company's internal communication.

PricewaterhouseCoopers company in October 2005 to January 2006 period, the survey of about 1000 companies. The survey was named DTI information security incident investigation.