Risky online activities more likely to happen in small businesses

Trend Micro has published the results of a survey which shows that in the US, UK, Germany and Japan, employees in small companies took more online risks while on the company network compared to their counterparts in larger organizations.

The study, which surveyed usage habits of 1600 corporate end users in the four countries, found that certain risky activities such as browsing websites unrelated to work, making online purchases, visiting social networking sites, downloading executable files and checking personal web-based email were more likely to take place in small businesses.

In all countries surveyed, small organizations are less likely to have preventative policies in place than large companies.

The survey found that small company end users in Japan are less aware of what type of company data is confidential compared to end users in larger Japanese organizations. Only 33 percent of small business end users said they were aware of what constitutes confidential company data compared to 46 percent from large companies. This held true for users in both the US and the UK as well, but the disparity was less.

http://www.trendmicro.com/

•Date: 3rd June 2008• Region: Various •Type: Article •Topic: ISM
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