Computer Crime and Security in South Africa Survey

Scooby_Doo

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Hey all,

I am doing my 4th year Information systems Honours empirical research project at UCT and need to get my survey filled in by some companies. Heres the long and hard of it on the opening page of the survey.


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Dear survey participant

In partial fulfilment of the course entitled Honours in Information Systems, we are required to complete an empirical research (ER) project. Under the auspices of the university and our mentor, Mr Adrie Stander, we wish to conduct follow up research on computer crime and security in South Africa

Using the data collected from the previous years ER project, the purpose of this ER is to determine any underlining trends in terms of increases in computer crime and security and South Africa’s current position relative with that of Australia and the USA. The research will exemplify the importance of South Africa organisations’ being educated and made aware of the current state and severity of computer crime, as well as the extent to which computer crime could potentially impact their business. Ultimately, the ER produced aims to serve as justification for further investment in computer security technologies, as well as the creation or improvement of computer and information security policies and procedures.

Thank you for participation in this study. Your co-operation will be greatly appreciated and your contribution will be most valuable. As this survey has been approved by the UCTs Ethics Committee, we would like to assure you that INFORMATION PERTAINING TO PERSONAL OR ORGANISATIONAL IDENTITY WILL REMAIN ANONYMOUS AND CONFIDENTIAL, and all other information provided will only be used for academic purposes of this study.

We understand that the survey is long (total of 37 questions) but this is necessary in order for the research to maintain consistency with previous data collected. PLEASE NOTE THAT ONCE YOU HAVE STARTED THE SURVEY IT NEEDS TO BE COMPLETED IN ONE SESSION AS YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO RETURN AND CONTINUE AT A LATER STAGE. Please ensure that you click on the “Done” button once you have completed the survey in order for your answers to be saved.

Furthermore, as a small token of our appreciation, we are willing to email results to you. Should you wish to receive a copy, please provide e-mail address in the space provided at the end of the survey. Please note that in no way will your e-mail address be linked to your survey results

Kind Regards



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Link to Survey

http://www.commerce.uct.ac.za/Servi...urvey.asp?PageNumber=1&SurveyID=6JMn85L35p8KG




So in short we building on top of past years students work and hope to extrapolate trends in computer crime and security and discover where SA is in the international market.

Thanks in advance for all the help. :D
 
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A worthwhile initiative – if you have some free time please help out Ryan and complete the survey.
 
Update, have got 40 complete responses so far, hopefully that represents 40 different companies, i am aiming to get a few more responses than last years group of which got 69. So if you have some time please keep them coming. :)
 
You could contact SACS (www.sacs.co.za), they specializes in computer forensics and are well known in that industry. Unfortunately you have to register on the site to see their contact details.
 
INF3003... those were some goodtimes :)

Good luck with the Hons deliverables!
 
Done!

Its my own IT support small business so the info might a bit... useless since all security is provided by ... ME so....

Good Luck.
 
Done!

Its my own IT support small business so the info might a bit... useless since all security is provided by ... ME so....

Good Luck.

Its all about finding out what SA is about so need a slice of every kind of company, tiny ---> huge, so thank you for the support :D
 
Hey all 2nd to last update.

Have a total of 53 results and will be taking the survey down sometime this weekend, so if you got a sec please help out.

Thanks.
 
Final update.

Thanks for all the support guys, i have now finished the analysis and write up of my findings and conclusion will let you know how it does against the onslaught that is the academic marking process.

Thanks Again

Scooby
 
Thanks all got my marks back and got a respectable 68% which put us in 4th place out of 14 groups. For all those that wanted the data from the survey i will send it out soon.
 
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