A recently released report by global independent research and advisory firm Financial Insights analyzes the results of a survey of 1,000 U.S. consumers to measure the impact of identity theft on consumer fears regarding their banking and online behaviors.

"Close to 60% of U.S. consumers sampled in January 2005 expressed concern about identity theft, and close to 6% admitted to switching banks to reduce their risk of becoming a victim of identity theft. Identity theft incidents have been taking their toll on banks and their customer relationships. Recent high-profile incidents of customer data theft at Bank of America, ChoicePoint, and LexisNexis may drive bank customers to worry further about the possibility of experiencing identity theft. However, our survey results show that not all consumers worry equally about identity theft and the crime itself does not impact all consumers across the U.S. at the same rate." states Sophie Louvel, research analyst at Financial Insights and author of the report.

Symantec Corp. (www.symantec.com) released its newest Internet Security Threat Report. The report provides analysis and discussion of trends in Internet attacks, vulnerabilities, malicious code activity for the second half of 2004.

"Attackers are launching increasingly sophisticated attacks in an effort to compromise the integrity of corporate and personal information, " said Arthur Wong, vice president of Symantec Security Response and Managed Security Services.

Meanwhile CIOInsight (www.cioinsight.com) released announcement about   organizing a new eSeminar on April 6th.

"As an enterprise IT manager, your biggest email headache today is viruses. Yesterday it was Denial of Service attacks. Tomorrow it will be spam and phishing. Or perhaps customer privacy, regulatory compliance or employee misuse of email will consume your time and attention," says the introduction addressed to the participants.

The result  of the constant threats is monitored to reflect in an email infrastructure that is enormously complex. This infrastructure is costly to manage and not ready to protect the businesses when the next email security crisis inevitably hits, states the announcement.

The seminar will regard e-mail security questions. It is aimed to help the large enterprises with complex networks to take an architectural approach to email security.

In this informative 50-minute eSeminar, Sendmail will explain the fundamental elements of email security architecture. Based on our experience implementing email systems for the world's largest enterprises, we'll explain:

• The four basic layers of email security architecture
• Typical security gaps in complex email networks, and how to fix them
• Best practices to improve email security in a multi-vendor environment

Featured speakers on the event will be J.F. Sullivan, Director of Product Management - Sendmail, Inc., Michael Donnelly, Project Manager, Sendmail Consulting Services - Sendmail, Inc. and Michael Krieger, VP, Market Experts Group - Ziff Davis Media.

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