The Hindu Business Line : `End-users take more risks online at work than home'

A Trend Micro study has revealed that end-users in enterprise environments took to risky online behaviour at work than at home. The findings place added emphasis on the security challenges IT organisations face in protecting business networks, securing critical information and reducing helpdesk calls.

A majority of the workers who admitted to opening suspicious e-mails or Weblinks on their work computers and not in home said it was because they had IT department to support them if something bad happened.

Business end-users also admitted to clicking on such links or opening suspicious e-mails.

The study, conducted in July 2005, featured more than 1,200 corporate end users in the US, Germany and Japan. The finding has established a link between the presence of an IT department and end-user confidence in the security they expect against viruses, worms, spyware, spam and phishing.

The Executive Vice-President and General Manager of Trend Micro's Enterprise Business Segment, Mr Max Cheng, has observed that "policy enforcement for security products and the ability to control access to the Internet from a central server would be the key to success in ensuring corporate desktop security and protecting the bottomline."

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