Social Networks are Biggest Threat To IT Security in 2010
By Anna Johnson on February 25th, 2010IT managers at small and medium-sized organizations believe that malicious software (malware) spread through social networks, Web 2.0 applications and other web-based vectors will pose the greatest threat to information security in 2010.
Based on Webroot’s survey of 803 information technology (IT) professionals at companies with 100 to 5,000 employees in the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia, a massive 80 percent of IT managers expect Web 2.0-based malware to be a problem in 2010.
About a quarter of SMBs (24 percent) have already been compromised through social networking sites, compared to 3 percent compromised by employees accessing personal web-based email accounts, 25 percent using P2P networking, and 32 percent downloading media from the Internet.
Unfortunately, 73 percent of SMBs reckoned that web-based threats were more difficult to manage than email-based threats.
