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Cost of virus cleanups goes up

Dec 15, 2003 6:59PM PST

According to a recent study by Britain's Corporate IT Forum, companies now spend four times more recovering from malicious computer attacks than they did in 2003. The forum, an organization of IT professionals from some of the UK's largest blue-chip companies, estimates that each incident costs an average of $213,000 in man-hours and related costs. The report determined that enterprises with sturdy incident-response teams and procedures suffered fewer malicious code outbreaks and were able to trim costs. Most infections, it was determined, came from systems integrated with business partners and contractors. "This emphasizes the need for organizations to apply security policies to third parties accessing their networks," David Roberts, the Forum's CEO said.

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