A Third of Businesses have not Fully Implemented Anti-Malware Protection

Antivirus software is the most popular way of ensuring an organisation’s IT security, however 33% of companies still have not managed to fully deploy even this fundamental protection system. This conclusion was reached by B2B International analysts following a July 2012 survey of IT specialists in 20 countries.

Antivirus software protects the whole infrastructure of 67% of companies. The remaining third introduce this kind of solution only for key nodes of the corporate network. The second most popular protection is a patch management system – 62% of companies use these to identify and update potentially vulnerable applications.

IT infrastructure improvements designed to enhance corporate data security took third and fourth places in terms of frequency of use. These measures include giving different groups of users different levels of access to resources, or structuring the corporate network so that key servers and workstations are isolated. Measures of this kind help protect critical corporate infrastructure objects against infection in the event of a successful attack by cybercriminals against network nodes or workstations with lower priority.

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The full report of the survey conducted by B2B International in July 2012 is available at http://www.kaspersky.com/downloads/pdf/kaspersky_global_it-security-risks-survey_report_eng_final.pdf.