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Article: New Study Shows Need for Americans to Focus on Securing Online Accounts and Backing Up Critical Data.
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- Biotech Week
- Article date:
- November 11, 2009
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Americans today are getting the message that Internet safety and security is critical to their daily lives but many still need to employ safer cyber hygiene, according to the 2009 National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA)-Symantec Online Safety Study, released by the NCSA and Symantec (NASDAQ:SYMC), makers of Norton security software (see also National Cyber Security Alliance).
The study results show that 85 percent of Americans feel they are most responsible for keeping their computers secure, and 40 percent feel that individual computer users are most responsible for keeping the entire Internet secure. Yet, some of their online behaviors limit their ability to ...