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IT leaders demand stricter e-crime penalties
Research conducted by trusted user group The Corporate IT Forum (Tif) has concluded that the government is not taking electronic crime seriously enough and that tougher penalties should be brought upon convicted e-criminals.
According to IT news site Computing.co.uk, Tif's head of research, Ollie Ross, revealed that around half of the respondents offered a great level of support to the implementation of stricter penalties, demanding "consistent and appropriate penalties for cyber-criminals and cross-border e-crime legislation."
The survey also unearthed a heightened scepticism about the government's reaction to increasing occurrences of e-crime - an increase that 69 per cent of Tif members had experienced.
Ms Ross said: "We are calling on the government to wake up a little in dealing with this, so we've called for the appropriate deterrents and penalties.
"At the moment the risk of getting caught is simply not great enough."
68 per cent of businesses admitted spending up to 40 per cent of their security budgets fighting cyber-crime.
The upcoming implementation of the £7 million Police Central e-crime Unit (PCeU) was met with a tentative response, with many members uncertain as to whether the unit will offer much of an impact on cyber-crime. According to Ms Ross, Tif members felt a "certain level of cynicism" over the PCeU's poor funding and resources.
"It is clear from the survey that there is a growing confidence that [our members] are getting to grips with lapses and dealing with anything accidental, by staff training, encryption policies and so on," she said.
"What they can't do is deal with criminal activity, and they feel it is not seen as terribly important by the government."
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