Survey Finds That 91% of Organizations Perceive Cybercrime as a Major Business Risk

Finjan Inc., a provider of secure web gateway solutions for the enterprise market, announced the findings of its Web security survey of 1387 IT/Security professionals conducted during July 2008. The results reveal that an overwhelming number of respondents perceive cybercrime as a major business risk, specifically the possibility of their sensitive information such as customer, patient, and employee data being stolen by crimeware.

Key findings from the survey:

--91% of all respondents stated that they perceive cybercrime as a major business risk (e.g. loss of customers, brand name damage, lawsuits etc.)

--73% of the all responding CIOs and CSOs were more concerned about data theft (crimeware stealing their business data) than about downtime and loss of productivity due to virus infections
--The majority of the respondents (68%) indicated that their corporate intellectual property and sensitive information is at risk of data-theft

--More than half of the respondents (54%) worry about their corporate employee information being stolen

--47% of all respondents listed theft of their corporate customer information as a major business concern

--In the banking and financial sector, 95% of the respondents perceived cybercrime as a major business risk to their organization

--Of the responding healthcare providers, 73% listed their patients’ medical records as the main potential cybercrime target

--25% of the respondents reported that their data had been breached, with an overwhelming 42% of respondents who could not exclude the possibility of a breach

--67% of respondents knowledgeable about web security listed real-time content inspection technology as the preferred web security solution

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