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FaceTime Communications and NewDiligence, a market research
company, conducted a Greynets Research Study compiling data
from 622 IT managers and 564 end users across small, medium
and large businesses to learn about the corporate use of Greynets
and the impact of spyware and virus incidents within organizations.
(Data collected May through July of 2005.) Key findings
can be found below.
Key Findings:
- Enterprises are spending on average $130,000 per month
in IT time fighting spyware problems.
- In general, end users believe they have the right to
install Greynet applications at the workplace. They also
believe IT has any security issues associated with Greynets
under control. 87% of the same end users reported a spyware
or virus problem resulting in slow internet response times,
pop up ads and corrupted files.
- Among IT managers who have rolled out perimeter security,
consisting of gateway AV, URL filtering and IDS/IDP, 77%
have had either a virus or spyware incident in the past
6 months.
- According to the research findings within the next 6
months virtually all end users will have deployed some type
of Greynet application and 8 in 10 end users (78%) now use
one or more Greynet applications; based on stated intentions
this number will rise to 93% in the next 6 months.
- 3 in 10 IT managers who experienced a virus incident,
report that IM has been associated with such occurrences.
A similar proportion report that IM has been associated
with spyware.
Expected Growth and Adoption of Greynet
Applications By Endusers
Number of Greynet Apps In Use At Work Locations
Source: FaceTime Greynets Research
Study, Aug 2005
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FaceTime
- Greynets Research Study 2005