(Nikkei BP Group)
(No.1 High-Tech News Site in Japanese)
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November 6, 1998 (TOKYO) -- About 30 percent of Japanese companies suffered
unauthorized accesses via the Internet and as many as 70 percent experienced
computer virus infections.
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These were the findings of a security survey conducted in August by Nikkei
Communications.
Questionnaires were mailed to 2,088 Japanese
companies, primarily those listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Replies
were received from 792 companies, or 37.9 percent of the total sample
(See Tables 1 and 2).
The results for unauthorized accesses via the Internet are totals for
the companies that have full-time online connections to the Internet
(335 companies out of the total 792 respondents). The results for computer
virus infections are totals for all 792 companies.
Among the types of unauthorized access reported by respondents were server
break-ins, spamming and attacks on computer systems.
Attacks happen all the time, according to one computer user who is well
aware of the problem of unauthorized access. Many companies may not
realize that their systems have come under attack.
This also is evident from the higher number of intrusions noticed by
companies that constantly monitor their server logs than by companies
without such surveillance.
The fact that over 70 percent of respondents experienced computer virus
damage is, from a different perspective, proof that companies are taking
steps to protect themselves against infection.
Coincidentally, around 70 percent of companies have deployed anti-virus
software to prevent and eradicate computer viruses.
The main threat is from macro viruses that infect document files. Document
exchange over networks is becoming more and more common, and some companies
have noticed that their system is infected only when alerted by a client
or customer.
The findings of the company security survey were published in a feature
article (in Japanese only) in the Nov. 2 issue of Nikkei
Communications.
Table 1: Incidence of Unauthorized Access (335 respondents)
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Experience of unauthorized access
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31.3%
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No experience of unauthorized access
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57.6%
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Don't know or no response
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11.0%
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Table 2: Incidence of Virus Infection (792 respondents)
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Experience of virus infection
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65.7%
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No experience of virus infection
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25.1%
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Not using anti-virus software
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3.4%
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Don't know or no response
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5.8%
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