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Champions League final bad news for tech support

By Stuart Turton

Posted on 27 May 2009 at 12:06

A survey has revealed that 39% of IT professionals will not be disturbed during the last five minutes of tonight's Champions League final, even to fix a major IT failure.

The findings appeared in a frank study gauging the attitudes of 151 IT security professionals, conducted by firewall experts Tufin Technologies.

The survey also revealed a number of other interesting observational nuggets. For example, of those questioned, 24% of IT professionals admitted they would happily buy hardware for their company from eBay if it saved them money, despite the inherent security and stability risks.

Another 29% admitted "that they or a colleague have cheated so that they get their audits passed."

However, the real focus of the survey concerned firewall management. The survey revealed that 63% of companies only check the rules governing their firewalls every three months, with 9% not bothering at all. A further 51% freely admitted their firewall rules are "a mess."

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