The survey also found 29 percent of those interviewed said security training is a requirement and only 36 percent of organizations interviewed offer security awareness training for employees.

Adoption of antivirus software was at 96 percent, and 91 percent of respondents currently use firewalls and proxy servers.

In the Asia Pacific and Asian region, more than 72 percent of companies were attacked by a virus or worm in the past 12 months according to a research program conducted by analyst firm Frost and Sullivan commissioned by Juniper Networks.

The survey interviewed CIOs, directors, IT managers and network administrators in Australia, China, India, Japan & South Korea and found more than half of those interviewed in Australia expect the malware and spyware threats to increase in 2006.

Greg Bunt, Juniper Asia Pacific emerging technologies manager, said a lot of organizations are spending the dollars on security, but a significant percentage of attacks happen on a network because of a user or the "whoops factor" created by the "non-deliberate insider".