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According to a poll of 100 IT security professionals, conducted at InfoSecurity Europe 2006 by AppSense, a leader in endpoint security for the enterprise, most IT managers accept the limitations of existing security systems for want of a better way. 79% of IT managers admitted they live in fear of unknown IT threats (zero-day attacks) with no real proactive way to defend against them.

Despite the fact that IT professionals are clearly concerned about new attacks, 73% of respondents reported that their IT infrastructure still relies on traditional and reactive anti-virus systems. The protection offered by these systems is limited by the need for signature and patching updates. It is during this window of vulnerability that the malware writers now focus their attention, leveraging the key weakness of these reactive security systems, thus turning them into part of the problem rather than part of a solution. The key findings of the survey were:

Unauthorised applications are a problem for most organisations 90% of IT security professionals consider unauthorised applications to be problematic. Unauthorised Applications Biggest Concern To IT Managers - IT Observer

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