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Four in 10 companies don’t enforce security: survey

By: Greg Meckbach On: 27 Jul 2008 For: ComputerWorld Canada Creator

A study released this week by Telus and the Rotman School of Management found only 59 per cent of Canadian companies enforce their IT security. Why foreign firms are better at enforcement

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Nearly one-quarter of respondents to a recent survey on IT security said their policies were not enforced in an acceptable way.

The survey of 300 organizations, conducted by both Telus Corp. and the University of Toronto’s Rotman school of Management, the Rotman-Telus Joint Study on Canadian IT Security Practices, was released Monday.

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Greg Meckbach Greg Meckbach is editor of Network World Canada and has worked for ComputerWorld Canada, Communications & Networking and Computing Canada.

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