Date: 28 May 91 12:19:12 bst From: P.A.Taylor Subject: Research Analysis Here is a selective and very rough analysis of the questionnaire you \ answered. It is from the first 50 responses out of a total of just under 200. A full analysis will be distributed when the target of 3-400 responses is achieved. Q1. Gender: 1 female respondent out of 50 (2 out of 200). Q7. Security of respondent's computer environment: Too strict - 0% Adequate -62% Lax -26% Q9. Length of professional experience: 38% - over 10 years. Q11. Serious interest in computing: 68% - over 10 years. Q12. Nature of interest: mainly professional 28% Professional and Recreational 72% Q13. Experience of: Malicious hack/harmless browse/viral incident. All of these 26% None 16% Q14. Number of times: 0-5 - 60% 6-10- 6% 10 -> 20% Q15. What was it? : virus - 38% worm - 16% Trojan- 18% Q16. How serious? : very - 6% not very - 42% not at all serious - 38% combination of these -14% Q18. Non-destructive access to data - crime? yes - 42% no - 20% don't know 38% Q19. Happy with current legislation? yes, about right - 12% no, it's too draconian - 38% Not strong enough - 18% Don't know - 32% Q20. More professional structure to computing industry needed? yes -30% no -40% don't know -30% Q21. Greatest threat to security? insiders -70% outsiders -8% about the same - 18% don't know -4% Q22. Viruses - potentially useful? yes -40% no -42% don't know 18% Q23. Benefits to System Breaking? yes -60% no -28% don't know -12% Q24. Knowledge of Cyberpunk? yes -64% no -36% Q25. Future trends of viruses? increase -64% decrease -10% stay the same -26% A complete analysis will be coming soon. ------------------------------