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Risk Statistics

The DTI’s Information Security Breaches Survey 2004* reveals a number of trends that require concerted attention by businesses – especially small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs).

Did you know that:

• Two-thirds of UK businesses have suffered at least one premeditated or malicious incident, compared with just under half two years ago.
• It took 29% of companies between 2 to 10 man-days to respond to their worst incident. However, some companies suffered incidents that took more than 50 man-days to address.
• The average cost of an organisation’s most serious security incident was roughly £10,000. In large companies, this was more like £120,000.
• 50% of incidents were due to virus infections, despite the vast majority of companies using anti-virus software.
• Less than one third of all UK businesses have a formally defined and documented information security policy.
• Although adoption of wireless networks has mushroomed over the last two years, worryingly, only half of networks have security controls in place.

Information security is a real issue which could have an impact on you and your business. What are you doing about it?

Source: DTI, Information Security: An Introduction (Factsheet)

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