Most companies under-estimate the volume of malicious software and few are aware of how much new malware appears every day. That is according to the 2013 Global Corporate IT Security Risks survey, by analysts B2B International and Kaspersky Lab in spring this year.
According to Kaspersky Lab, nearly 200,000 new malware samples appear around the world each day. Asked to estimate this figure, 90 per cent of global participants in the survey named a lower figure; 4 per cent guessed too high and only 6 per cent gave an accurate estimate.
The highest levels of malware awareness were found among respondents in the Middle East, where 24 per cent of companies gave accurate estimates. At 4 per cent, the lowest levels of malware knowledge were found in Russia. In other regions, including North and South America, Western Europe and Asia-Pacific, the percentage of companies with accurate estimates ranged from 5 per cent to 7 per cent.
The results of the same survey suggested that an average 66 per cent of companies had experienced at least one attack involving malware in the previous 12 months. The companies most frequently targeted in those attacks were located in South America (72 per cent), Russia (71 per cent), North America (70 per cent), Asia-Pacific (68 per cent) and Western Europe (63 per cent). Not surprisingly, these are the regions which demonstrated relatively low levels of education about the number of new malware threats.
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