Yahoo! News - IT Managers Have False Sense Of Security
Yahoo! News - IT Managers Have False Sense Of Security: "Corporate IT managers are a bit bi-polar when it comes to network security, said a survey released this week at the Computer Security Institute's annual conference in Washington, D.C."

Just as an overwhelming majority of IT execs think that their networks are safer than they were a year ago, an even larger percentage admit in that attacks are on the rise.

The contradictory attitudes came as a shock to Q&A Research, the California-based market research firm which did the polling for security vendor Britestream.

The survey of 300 IT professionals in companies with annual revenues of more than $30 million revealed that a tad more than three out of four (76 percent) believe their networks are more secure today than a year ago. But a whopping 81 percent reported that attacks are on the upswing and 20 percent admitted that a hacker had gotten through their defenses to access their corporate network.
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