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<DIV>These attacks are not only for New Zeland and others "big" country,</DIV>
<DIV>they are also for africans countries.</DIV>
<DIV>We have to be very careffuly.<BR> </DIV>
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<TD vAlign=top align=left width="70%" colSpan=2><SPAN class=small>Written by Kelly Gregor </SPAN> </TD></TR>
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<TD class=createdate vAlign=top colSpan=2>Wednesday, 25 March 2009 </TD></TR>
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<P>Cyber risks have become the biggest IT security threat to New Zealand businesses, Symantec says. </P>
<P>The anti-virus provider released the results of its 2009 Managed Security in the Enterprise Report today, which showed cyber risks and actual attacks had vastly increased over the past two years. </P>
<P>Nearly all the organisations questioned by Symantec reported a loss in revenue due to heightened threats and decreased consumer trust. </P>
<P>Symantec said inadequate budgets, increased regulatory pressures and staffing problems were the main issues in monitoring cyber threats. </P>
<P>Symantec Asia Pacific and Japan senior manager Peter Sparkes said New Zealand businesses were no longer isolated from trojans and worms that had previously targeted larger more multi-national companies. </P>
<P>Sparks said small companies were now being targeted as much as major financial and government institutions because the value of personal data and information had increased. </P>
<P>He said viruses used to be aimed at creating havoc, where as today it is intended for a more malicious purpose such as extracting detailed personal information to be sold. </P>
<P>“Companies in NZ are as much affected as anyone else. It’s all one domain now. Gone are the days when this only happened to financial services.” </P>
<P>Sparks said Symantec had received reports that the majority of companies questioned had lost money due to cyber threats and attacks. </P>
<P>“Businesses aren’t as trusted. This is having a significant impact on productivity and businesses have seen a direct loss from it. Customers are less trusting and in turn this affects the company’s brand and market position.” </P>
<P>More than 80% of companies surveyed reported an increase in cyber attacks, where as 31% saw attacks on a regular basis and 10% claimed to have suffered form an extreme amount of attacks. </P>
<P>Symantec ranked cyber attacks as twice as likely to affect businesses as traditional crime such as burglary and natural disasters and four times more likely than terrorism. </P>
<P>Symantec managed services vice president Grant Geyer said: “IT management in large enterprises is caught between a rock and a hard place. </P>
<P>“Cyber security is a growing problem, yet organisations are having trouble addressing the problem. Managed security services provide a way for many organisations to close the gap and ensure their information and assets are protected,” Geyer said. </P>
<P>The report was based on a study of 1000 IT managers in the US and Europe during January 2009. </P></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></DIV></DIV></div><br>
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