Eurostat releases its ICT usage in enterprises 2010 report, with the results of its survey (with special focus on ICT security) amongst EU27 countries.
The report reveals 12% of enterprises experiencing security incidents due to hardware or software failure, and 5% reporting data destruction or corruption (due to malicious software infection or unauthorised access).
Reports of confidential data disclosure due to intrusion, pharming or phishing attacks come from 1% or less of enterprises.
By January 2010, half of EU27 enterprises used strong passwords or hardware tokens for user identificationa and authentication.
Meanwhile 94% of enterprises have internet access-- the majority (85%) have fixed broadband and 27% also use mobile broadband connections.
Mobile broadband use varies widely through the EU-- from 55% of Finnish enterprises (and 95% of its large enterprises) to 6% in Greece and 8% in Romania.
Go Low Share of Enterprises Affected by ICT Security Incidents in 2009