White Papers for Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA)

What is the (Real) Threat and How to Deal With It? A Route to Security as a Service

IDC EMEA

In Europe,the level of awareness of I threats is generally very good.Most organisations know how to deal with viruses,spam,key-logging and other Internet threats.IDC believes that the vast majority of organisations are using,at the very least,antivirus or an antispam tools plus additional security features such as VPNs for remote connection backup and recovery for business continuity.However,this provides just basic protection and covers just half the danger. Threats today are agile,silent and very efficient,especially if organisations do not fully understand where the real threat lies.A single question that can help present the current situation is why have there been so few reports of widespread viruses over the past 12 months? Antivirus systems are certainly now quite effective,and the responsiveness and agility of detection systems reacting to large waves of self-reproductive viruses also improved. Furthermore,with the exception of poor security tools management,such as out of date antivirus tools,it has become increasingly rare for a system to be infected via email.

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