Respondents on average said they were exploring 19 different IT standards or frameworks to protect their networks and were currently employing at least eight of them.
But IT managers said they are understaffed in key areas, with network security (44 percent), messaging security (39 percent) identified as groups that remain woefully understaffed.
Hacker countermeasures Last week, NetWitness, a Virginia-based computer security firm, disclosed that organized hackers had broken into the computers of 2,411 companies and government agencies over the past 18 months.
In January, senior executives at Exxon Mobile (NYSE: XOM), ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP) and Marathon Oil (NYSE: MRO) confirmed that they were targeted by an extremely aggressive malware campaign attack in 2008 designed to steal key proprietary data — including multi-million-dollar research to locate the next great oil or natural gas discovery.
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