Cerberian and SonicWALL Web Usage Survey Results Released
75% Accidentally See Porn at Work
SUNNYVALE, Calif. & SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 14, 2004--A Web usage survey conducted by Cerberian, Inc. a leading provider of intelligent Web filtering solutions for businesses, homes and schools, and SonicWALL Inc. (Nasdaq:SNWL), a leading provider of integrated security, productivity and mobility solutions reveals:
Survey highlights:
-- More than 75 percent of people have accidentally visited a pornographic Web site while at work
-- 15 percent have visited such sites more than 10 times
-- 50 percent of respondents spent more than 10 percent of their time at work surfing the Web for personal reasons
-- 60 percent of the respondents indicated their organizations did not have rules against personal Web surfing at work
-- More than 50 percent of organizations have not implemented any type of Internet filtering technology
Most common ways people have accidentally reached pornographic content on the Web:
-- Pop up windows (55%),
-- Misrepresented links (52%),
-- Misspelled URLs (48%), and
-- Auto links within emails (23%).
Other statistics:
-- 16 percent of people have knowingly surfed pornography sites at work at least once;
-- 40 percent have seen co-workers surfing porn sites;
-- 32 percent of people have seen co-workers surf gambling sites;
-- 91 percent have seen people shopping online; and
-- 85 percent have seen co-workers surfing sports-related web sites.
How people feel about surfing at work:
-- 68 percent were bothered by pornography surfing
-- 47 percent were bothered enough to confront the offender or mention it to management/human resources
Other surfing:
-- 59 percent were offended by gambling surfing
-- 35 percent by shopping online
-- 29 percent by sports surfing
Over 2,400 people responded during the month of April 2004 via email to questions about everything from Internet access policies, to personal surfing habits at work and feelings about co-workers surf habits.
Report availability:
For a copy of the complete results and/or the comprehensive survey press release, please send an email to susanm@intelecgroup.com or visit www.cerberian.com/surveyresults.
About SonicWALL, Inc.
SonicWALL, Inc. is a leading provider of integrated network security, mobility, and productivity solutions for the SMB, enterprise, e-commerce, education, healthcare, retail/point-of-sale, and government markets. Core technologies include firewall, VPN, wireless, intrusion detection and prevention, anti-virus, and content filtering, along with award-winning security management solutions. Together, these products and technologies provide the most comprehensive distributed enforcement architecture available. SonicWALL, Inc. is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA. SonicWALL trades on the NASDAQ exchange under the symbol SNWL. For more information, contact SonicWALL at +1 (408) 745-9600 or visit the company web site at http://www.sonicwall.com/.
SonicWALL is a registered trademark of SonicWALL, Inc. Other product and company names mentioned herein may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective companies.
About Cerberian
Cerberian has revolutionized Internet management by delivering the most intelligent, hassle-free Web filtering solution available. This unique technology allows organizations to effectively manage and filter objectionable and unproductive Web content while reducing risk of security breaches, limiting legal liability, conserving IT resources, and boosting employee productivity. Offered as a managed service, Cerberian minimizes initial investment and ongoing management burden by maintaining the technology and data management responsibility at Cerberian's global data centers. Cerberian realizes that a URL database alone is not enough to stop new and uncategorized Web content. Consequently, unlike other filtering solutions, Cerberian's Dynamic Real-Time Rating (DRTR) technology analyzes all requested Web pages in real-time to ensure the highest level of protection while constantly feeding new ratings to Cerberian's massive ratings database. Cerberian Web Manager is available as an integrated, value-added service on leading network appliances, service solutions, and security software applications, allowing organizations to choose how they prefer to deploy and manage Internet security.
Cerberian(R) and the Cerberian(R) logo are registered trademarks of Cerberian(R) Inc. Cerberian Web Manager(TM), Dynamic Real-Time Rating(TM), and Dynamic Background Rating(TM) are trademarks of Cerberian Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
Contacts
The Intelec Group (PR)
Susan Majerus, 480-354-4334
susanm@intelecgroup.com
or
Cerberian
Greg Heaps, 801-999-2905
gheaps@cerberian.com
or
SonicWALL
Mary McEvoy, 408-962-7110
mmcevoy@sonicwall.com
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