Almost 20 per cent of corporate PCs are infected with some form of malware.
According to a report by Damballa and reported by Computing, there was no correlation between size and infection, with large organisations – which ought to have better resourced IT and computer security departments – seemingly no better protected than small and medium-sized businesses.
One of the key threats, it found, was organisations allowing contractors and other third parties full access to their corporate networks, with administrative rights, in some cases, and not even restricting mobile devices. Such organisations were found to have higher than average malware infection rates.
