The professional service firm’s annual Global Security Survey showed a dramatic rise in the number of respondents reporting system breaches.
“Security threats such as viruses, worms, malicious code, sabotage and identity theft are real and have already cost millions of dollars in lost revenues to institutions globally,” Ted DeZabala a principal and national leader of Security Services for Deloitte & Touche, said in a statement.
Despite that, fewer respondents reported fully deployed antivirus measures — 96 percent last year compared to 87 percent this year. Also, IT security budgets were flat at more than 25 percent of the survey base, with 10 percent reporting reduced security budgets.
The survey found gains in the areas of privacy and regulatory compliance efforts, where two-thirds claim to have a privacy management program in place, up incrementally by 6 percent over the previous year. Most identified themselves as “effective users of demonstrated technology” according to the surveys authors. That said, only 9 percent were willing to take risk associated with being an early adopter.
The survey also found vulnerability and identify management technologies were the two most common technology initiatives planned for pilot programs or deployment in the next 18 months.
A recent Gartner group survey estimated the cost of fake e-mail ‘phishing’ attacks at $1.2 billion dollars. This year also looks to be bad for viruses and Trojans of all sorts, though according to one study infection rates are holding steady.
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