Third of businesses fail to report e-crime

Published on 27 Apr 2007

Research conducted by information security event organisers Infosecurity Europe has revealed that at least one third of businesses are not reporting ecrime.

Interviews with a panel of 20 Chief Security Officers showed that businesses are daily targets for ecrime, but these attacks are rarely reported.

Reasons for not reporting such crimes included: not considering it serious enough to merit reporting; uncertainty about who the crime should be reported to and the possibility of negative press if a company was revealed to have been comprimised by ecrime.

Tony Neate, managing director of campaign group GetSafeOnline commented:

'Without collating the scale of the e-crime problem, we will never truly be aware of the cost to society at large and the measures that need to be put in place to fight it.'