Security
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Respondent base: 49 Would you allow a total stranger to walk around with
one of your credit cards for two minutes? a) Yes 35% b) No 65%
Respondent base: 49 Have you eaten at a restaurant lately and paid using
a credit card? a) Yes 96% b) No 4%
Respondent base: 57 Which of the following best descrbes your current
intranet installation? a) We do not have one 21% b) We have an intranet
Web presence (external hosting service) 2% c) We use our Internet Web
servers 9% d) We use separate servers for our intranet material, but no
firewall 9% e) We have intranet servers installed exclusively behind the
firewall 60%
Respondent base: 48 When does your company plan to do secure transaction
processing on the Internet? a) This year 32% b) In one year 26% c) In
two to five years 28% d) Never 15%
Respondent base: 51 Security will be a significant inhibitor to the
widespread implementation of an intranet in your company. a) Agree 16%
b) Disagree 84%
Respondent base: 53 To provide adequate security for your intranet, your
security budget: a) Will not change significantly 36% b) Will increase
somewhat 57% c) Will increase considerably 8%
Respondent base: 55 Today's firewall technology and encryption standards
provide adequate protection if correctly applied. a) Agree 75% b)
Disagree 25%
Intranet futures
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Respondent base: 56 When will the intranet become the largest form of
information technology spending in your company? a) In 1-2 years 2% b)
In 2-5 years 27% c) In 5-10 years 15% d) Probably never 56%
Respondent base: 25 What will be the "killer application" for the
intranet? a) Groupware 24% b) E-mail 4% c) Remote access 4% d)
Electronic publishing 4% e) Telephony 0% f) Video 0% g) Legacy system
access 4% h) Transaction processing 16% j) Information dissemination 16%
i) Data mining 28%
Respondent base: 46 The intranet platform of the future can be best
described as: a) The browser becomes a new operating system 4% b) The
browser is an application on the existing operating system 17% c)
Current operating systems are extended so that browser functionality can
be built directly into applications 48% d) A new operating system is
created which enables browser functionality to be built into
applications 26% e) None of the above 4%
Respondent base: 45 The effect of the intranet on corporate networks
will be: a) IS control of the network will increase 24% b) User control
of the network will increase 42% c) There will be no change in network
control 33%
Respondent base: 48 The Internet's bandwidth constraints will become a
problem for us: a) Now 58% b) Within the next year 25% c) In five years
13% d) Probably never 4%
Intranet management
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Respondent base: 42 Which of the following song titles best summarizes
the current IS management position vis-a'-vis the intranet: a) "I hear
you knockin' (but you can't come in)" 0% b) "What's goin' on?" 19% c)
"I'm leavin' it all up to you" 5% d) "Come back when you grow up" 7% e)
"Gettin' better every day" 69%