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International Chamber of Commerce, ranks the United States at the top of the list, citing 205 violations and $51.7 million in losses. The United Kingdom ranked second, with 116 reported violations costing $31.1 million. Next is India, with 87 incidents at $2.5 million; Malaysia, 52 incidents costing $5.9 million; and China, 43 incidents at $5.3 million.

The study indicates manufacturers of fake goods are increasingly finding new ways to exploit Internet marketing to reach consumers, retailers, and distributors.

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The Ponemon Institute analyzed 31 different incidents for the study.

Total costs for each ranged from less than $1 million to more than $22 million.

“Once again, the Ponemon survey illuminates the high costs companies will incur for failing to protecting their customers’ data,” said Andrew Krcik, vice president of marketing for PGP Corporation. “In light of these findings, it’s not surprising that companies such as PGP Corporation and Vontu are seeing an increasing shift to preventative solutions.”

“The new Ponemon study confirms what we hear every day from our enterprise customers, that they simply cannot afford to allow confidential data loss to continue,” said Steve Roop, vice president of products and marketing, Vontu.

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What emerges from all this is far from the landscape described by email management vendors, in which organizations are eager to adopt technology to sort and save important email.

When it comes to archiving email, nearly 60 percent of respondents said they save email as part of regular backup. Just 3 percent reported outsourcing email archiving.

“As anyone who has gone through an e-discovery process can attest, finding and producing relevant emails from back-up is not the same as producing them from an archive in which the content is based on the subject and relevance of the email.”

According to the Radicati Group consultancy, the volume of email that the average corporate user sends and/or receives every day will grow 30 percent within the next four years, from 16.4 Mbytes in 2006 to 21.4 Mbytes per day in 2010. And unless companies start taking action, Mancini implies, they’ll be risking both their ability to produce relevant proof for compliance or litigation, but also their ability to benefit from increased use of email.

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Market confusion may have driven the 22% who expressed no opinion.

“This result confirms the direction Q1 Labs has been taking with the QRadar network security management platform,” said Tom Turner, vice president of marketing at Q1 Labs.

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A huge 17 percent also felt that the dangers far outweighed the positive aspects and preferred not to use the Internet at all.

According to Patrick McFadden, a junior minister at the Cabinet Office quoted in The Guradian: “Fear of online crime is an important issue that must not be ignored.

Report can be downloaded from: http://www.getsafeonline.org/media/GSO_Cyber_Report_2006.pdf

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For the most part, users are aware of IT security concerns, but not pervasively so.

“At least one-third were not even aware that they are exposed to or could experience security breaches or compromises,” Bruce Murphy, Cisco’s vice president of Advanced Services, told internetnews.com.

Only 25 percent of global respondents admitted to using their work computers to open an unknown e-mail.

“We see inconsistencies between what people say they do and what they propose they might do in certain cases,” said Erica DesRoches, program manager for InsightExpress.

According to DesRoches, the inconsistency of responses is one of the most surprising aspects of the survey and one that likely requires further examination to better understand.

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