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Many technology managers are having a hard time tracking the use of Web 2.0 technologies and protecting their organizations from the inherent risks of interactive media. Websense recently conducted an in-depth survey on the matter, asking 1300 IT managers from 10 countries about their attitudes and practices surrounding Web 2.0. The highlights suggest that defenses could use some work.
62% of IT managers think Web 2.0 is necessary to their business.
17% of IT managers correctly identified all types of Web 2.0 sites when presented a list.
86% of IT managers feel pressured to allow access to Web 2.0 sites from within their organization.
95% of organizations allow access to Web 2.0 sites-on average, to six categories of Web 2.0 sites.
5% of organizations do not allow their users access to any Web 2.0 sites.
74% block access to at least one type of Web 2.0 site-on average, to five types of sites.
77% of organizations allow access to sites that provide e-mail services, such as Hotmail and Gmail.
74% allow access to Web portals such as iGoogle.
71% allow access to Wikis.
64% of IT managers permit access to social network sites primarily used for business.
49% allow access to social network sites primarily used for personal use.
94% of organizations have Web security policies in place in an attempt to restrict user access to certain areas of the Internet.
47% of IT managers say the users in their organization try and bypass their Web security policies.
27% of respondents admitted to not knowing the access status of some Web 2.0 sites and technologies in their organization.
45% say they do not have a solution that protects company-confidential data from being uploaded on to the Web.
46% do not have a solution that enables real-time prevention of malware entering the network.
52% of organizations can't detect malicious code on trusted Web sites.
59% of IT managers say they can't stop safe Web sites from routing browsers to unknown sites.
Two out of three IT shops have no way to analyze or classify Web site content.
Only 9% of respondents indicated that they have the necessary security tools to protect from all threat vectors across Web, email and data security.
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