Webroot survey.

Adult, Gambling & Video Content Less Frequently Accessed Than Personal and Web2.0 Services & 58% See Social Networking As a Threat

Travel, personal webmail and social networking websites have been identified as the most commonly filtered genres of website within the UK workplace--ahead of adult, gambling and video download content--according to Webroot.

Trends observed by Webroot indicate that employees are attempting to access travel, webmail and social networking more frequently than ever before, indicating that many employees believe these sites to be an acceptable use of time and resources at work, whilst sites of a sexual nature or gambling sites are so obviously unacceptable that they are effectively being self policed.

Additionally, a survey of over 300 IT decision makers revealed that more than half (58%) of respondents believe that employees' social networking activities pose a moderate or major threat to their business' online security.

With web-borne malware having increased by up to 540% in the last three years and almost 5.5 million individual malicious programs identified during 2007--including up to 1,000 new variants of existing malware in just one day--the number of malicious programs in circulation has now reached epidemic proportions. An increasing number of threats are being delivered via websites--not least in the form of bots and other web-based malware.

www.webroot.com