Food for thought

[Kevin Spicer]

On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 20:49, Julian Field wrote:
> It was done by a marketing company called TNS I believe. The best report on
> it I have seen is here:
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/35393.html
> It makes for alarming reading!

It certainly does.  TNS are a market research (not marketing) company -
this means their research is independently conducted and meets certain
standards (we are also a market research company and TNS are one of our
main competitors).  Knowing the professional standards they are obliged
to work to concerns me more because I can't dismiss this as purely
scare-mongering by a major IT firm (as I might if it was a 'Messagelabs
say' type article).  A colleague and I were today talking about
launching some sort of 'web-wise' campaign internally to alert users to
the risks they face (I'm particularly concerned about phishing - I had a
really convincing scam email 'from Barclays' yesterday).  This report
will really help me push for permission to do this.




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