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Viruses—Still the Greatest Threat

IT security staff say viruses and worms are still their main headache， even though these dangers are less common in the UK than other countries， according to a new report released last week by analyst Accenture.

In Accenture's annual Global Information Security Survey， 40 percent of UK technology and security professionals said worms and viruses posed the greatest danger. This may be because UK firms are better informed about web-based threats.

\"Some of the data seemed to indicate that the UK is a bit more advanced than other geographies，\" said the head of Accenture's European Security Practice， Floris van den Dool. \"The majority of attacks in the UK were discovered by intrusion-detection systems and not by analyzing server and firewall log files， indicating a higher level of maturity.\"

Van den Dool added that UK firms might be relying too heavily on technology to defend themselves. He said that to strengthen protection， additional measures such as risk analysis should also be used.

病毒——仍是最大的威脅

上周由埃森哲公司分析家做出的一項報告指出，在英國病毒的威脅要少于其他國家，盡管如此，IT安全工作人員說病毒和蠕蟲仍是他們最苦惱的事情。

在埃森哲公司的年度《全球信息安全調查》一文中，40%的英國技術和信息安全專家認為蠕蟲和病毒是最大的危險。這可能是因為英國的廠商更好地獲悉了網絡威脅的信息。

埃森哲公司歐洲安全實驗室負責人弗里斯·范·登·多爾說：“有資料顯示，英國要比其他國家先進許多，發生在英國的大部分病毒攻擊是由入侵防御系統而不是由分析服務器和防火墻日志發現的，顯示了較高水平的成熟度。”

范·登·多爾還指出，英國的廠商可能太過分依賴技術來保護自己了。他說，為了加強保護，應該運用一些其他的措施，比如說風險分析等。（Joseph Leu/編譯）