Italians fear cyber attacks but almost 4 out of 10 are indifferent to IT security or do not implement measures to protect themselves. The figure emerges from the first Censis-DeepCyber report on the value of cybersecurity presented today to the Senate.
61.6%, notes the survey that tested a representative sample of a thousand people, are worried about IT security and take precautions on their devices to defend themselves: of these, 82% resort to software and apps for protection and 18% turn to an expert. 28.1%, while declaring themselves worried, do nothing concrete to defend themselves, while 10.3% have no worries about IT security.
The educational qualification is an important discriminant: it is in fact graduates who worry more and take precautions (69%) than those with a middle school diploma (49.4%).
One in four Italians (24.3%) know precisely what is meant by cybersecurity, 58.6% broadly, while 17.1% do not know what it is. It is mainly young people (35.5%), graduates (33.4%), entrepreneurs (35.4%) and executives (27.7%) who have a precise knowledge of it. 39.7% of employees declare that they have had some specific training on cybersecurity in the company, a share that reaches 56.8% for top positions. There is a wide availability of workers to participate in training initiatives in the company or elsewhere on cybersecurity: 65.9% of workers would like to participate.
64.6% of citizens (75.6% among young people, 83.8% among executives) happened to be the target of deceptive emails whose intent was to extort sensitive personal information, presenting themselves as coming from the reference bank or from companies of which the person was a customer. 44.9% (53.3% among young people, 56.2% among employed) had their pc / laptop infected with a virus.
Cyber insecurity also travels through online payments: 14.3% of citizens have a cloned credit card or debit card, 17.2% discover online purchases made in their name and at their expense. 13.8% suffered privacy violations, with the theft of personal data from a device or with the unauthorized sharing of photos or videos. 10.7% happened to discover fake social accounts with their name, identity or photo on social accounts, 20.8% received requests for money from people they met on the web, 17.1% had online relationships with proposed people with false identity.
Cyberbullying is also widespread: 28.2% of students say they have received, during their school career, offenses, teasing, assaults via social media, WhatsApp or unauthorized sharing of videos.
And cyber fears are advancing. As many as 81.7% of Italians fear that they will be the victim of theft and violation of their personal data on the web. Among the activities that Italians perceive as more risky for identity theft are web browsing with website consultation (57.8%), the use of social accounts, from Facebook to Instagram (54.6%), online product purchases (53.7%), home banking operations (46.6%).
Source: Ansa
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