About three quarters of businesses think a national body
should be established to deal withe-crime, according to survey by
theBritish
Chamber of Commerce.
The British Chamber of Commerce (BCC) has published The
Invisible Crime: A Business Crime Survey 2008, a survey which
questioned 3,900 businesses in the UK. It revealed that a quarter
of firms have had data stolen with only 11% protecting data through
encryption technology.
Spam is the biggest source of e-crime with 94% of businesses
experiencing it in the past year.
Other e-crimes recorded were phishing attacks with 31% affected.
Spyware infected 23% of businesses, 11% were hit by credit card
fraud and 7% of businesses were hacked.
The BCC report outlined what businesses are doing to counter
e-crime. "Four-fifths of businesses use anti-virus software to help
combat computer-related incidents and 77% use Spam filtering
software. Seventy four per cent routinely back-up their business
data 70% store their data off-site. 63% have installed a
software-based firewall and 51% a hardware firewall, whilst 40%
have developed a strong password policy and 21% have compiled an
asset inventory," said the BCC report.