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Businesses still ignoring computer protection

A number of companies are failing to take sufficient steps to protect their computers, it has been claimed.

According to a survey conducted by the Ponemon Institute, the majority of employees who left a place of work last year took confidential information with them.

This has prompted Ponemon senior privacy analyst Mike Spinney to advocate the importance of implementing adequate computer protection.

Expanding on this theme, he said that organisations should consider three courses of action.

They should "develop clear and enforceable data use policies, including consequences for non-compliance; engage employees on such policies through educational and awareness programmes; and invest in the technologies that can allow a company to monitor, enforce, prevent and protect," he said.

However, research by the Department for Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform highlights the fact that more firms are taking internet security seriously than has been the case in the past.

Money spent on internet security had risen from two per cent of an IT budget in 2002 to seven per cent in 2008.

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