Humans screw up IT

Even more so if the IT department has installed security software on their system.

One out of three U.S. business end users and at least one in four in Germany and Japan who admitted that they are more likely to open suspicious emails or click on suspicious links said it was because the computer equipment was not theirs.

In Germany (76%) and the United States (65%), business end users who admitted to being more likely to open suspicious emails and links said it was because IT had installed security software on their computers. In Japan, 42 percent felt the same way.

In the U.S. nearly half of workers who admit they are more likely to open suspicious emails or Web links on their work computers than at home said it was because they had IT to support them if something bad happened. Similar results were found in Germany (39%) and Japan (28%).

“There is a correlation between the presence of an IT department and end-user confidence in the security they expect against viruses, worms, spyware, spam, phishing, and pharming,” said the firm.

Trend did the survey in the US, Germany and Japan (probably figuring that the Brits just do what they are told and there was no point asking the French because they'd say “Mais Oui”).

It's all to with Trend saying that there must be “policy enforcement for security products” and it offers “multi-layered security infrastructure.”µ