[HIB]88% of UK IT managers concerned over customer online security fears

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Research just released claims to show that IT staff are spending their resources on security to ease customer concerns and establish better levels of online trust.The survey of more than 700 European IT professionals found that UK IT managers lose more sleep over their customers' security fears than over direct threats to their websites such as phishing, identity theft or site spoofing.The research – which was sponsored by VeriSign – found that 88% of UK IT managers rank customer confidence in security at the top of their list of concerns and have allocated an average of 19% of their IT budgets to security measures addressing those fears.

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