Cyber security is considered by many Americans to be a “very important” issue for this year’s election candidates. In particular, a focus on defending utilities and transportation systems from cyber-attacks is important, according to a survey by Unisys.

According to a new Unisys Security Index report, nearly one-third of respondents prefer simple passwords to secure their mobile work devices — even though hackers can break a six-character simple password in just 10 minutes.

Seventy-four percent of Americans surveyed want this year’s presidential candidates to focus on protecting government computer systems from cybercriminals, according to the biannual Unisys Security Index, which surveys more than 1,000 people on security concerns.

More Americans want the presidential candidates to focus on protecting the government and the electrical grid against hackers than fighting terrorism groups.

Americans are more concerned about national security and financial security than Internet security and the security of their personal information, according to a report published May 9. Still, Americans are looking to the government to protect the nation's "key assets" from cyberattacks, finds the report.

According to new research by Unisys Corporation, shippers in the U.S. are less concerned about nearly all aspects of security than they were 12 months ago.

Americans are less concerned about nearly all aspects of security than they were 12 months ago, but an overwhelming majority consider security issues very important when assessing presidential candidates, according to new research by Unisys.

Americans express a bit less anxiety about their security than they felt a year ago, perhaps because they've become desensitized by extensive news reports about cyberattacks last spring, says Unisys' Steve Vinsik.

Most Americans are more concerned about hacking and cyberattacks on the nation's infrastructure than they are about terrorism, according to opinion research published Wednesday by the computer security firm Unisys.

More Americans want presidential candidates to make cybersecurity a priority than want them to focus on terrorism, according to a bi-annual survey by a computer security firm.

IT services company Unisys recently released its bi-annual Unisys Security Index, which tracks perceptions about Internet security across a variety of topics that affect both enterprise IT and consumers. Not suprisingly, the latest study — which surveyed more than 11,000 people across 12 countries — found that many have already been victims of cyber crime, are worried it will happen again and — in some areas — are willing to to undertake or support some rather extreme efforts to stop the problem.

One of the more challenging aspects of security has been justifying the level of investment in security technologies vs. attaining an actual return on that investment (ROI). As a result, the conversations about the ROI of security generally fall back on the cost of providing security versus the potential risk to the business and the damage to the company’s reputation.

Unisys released its latest Security Index which stated that roughly half of American citizens would be willing to provide biometric data to add security for airport screenings and banking transactions.

Consumers demand organizations do more to protect their data, or they will take their business elsewhere in case of a security breach, according to the Unisys Security Index.    

Consumers are getting angry about the breaches of the companies they buy from, and they're no longer going to take it lying down, according to a study published today.

Most Americans are more than willing to use their own bodies - or at least parts of them - as a form of identification in their everyday activities. The use of biometrics, it appears, doesn't frighten a majority of connected Americans.

More than half of the more than 1,000 Americans who responded to a survey conducted for Unisys are willing to sue organizations that compromise their personal data.

More than half of American consumers would sue a company that loses its personal information, according to a survey released Wednesday by IT firm Unisys.

Americans are significantly more concerned about nearly all aspects of their security compared to six months ago, according to new research conducted by Unisys Corporation. 

Americans are feeling more insecure about almost everything this year, according to a recent survey released by Unisys Corp., but it is difficult to say just why.  

Here’s a prediction for 2011. Heck, it’s also a prediction for 2012, 2013 and the rest of the years between now and 2020. The prediction? Spammers will try to con you with references to holidays, celebrity deaths, and natural disasters.    

While the IT industry continues to pump millions of dollars into messaging cloud computing, most IT shops remain on the sidelines. For example, when ESG Research asked IT professionals to list their top initiatives for 2011, "increased use of cloud services" came in as the 12th most popular response -- below more pedestrian IT activities like "desktop/laptop PC replacement initiatives," and "data center consolidation." Why are many organizations eschewing the cloud? Forty-three percent of the IT professionals surveyed said that "data security/privacy concerns" are so acute that they plan to minimize any cloud computing efforts in the foreseeable future.  

The complete Internet shutdown this week in Libya involved a new way to turn off web access for an entire country. Earlier this year, the total Internet blockades in Egypt backfired and emboldened the protesters.