The well known Unisys association was created to help managers to secure their business operations in order to better focus on opportunities. This month, they have launched 3 reports related to people's security fears. The survey was conducted in US, Australia and New Zeeland and the purpose was to find out how safe consumers feel on key areas of security. These studies are conducted twice a year by Unisys Security Index and they include national security issues, financial security issues, personal security issues and Internet security issues.

This year surveys revealed that US citizens (68%) are the most concerned in security issues, especially in online credit card fraud. An important aspect is that 74% of the Americans believe that an increasing number of Internet thefts and online frauds are a consequence of these days financial crisis. Regarding the Australians, only 55% are concerned of online credit card fraud but 54% are afraid of unauthorized access to personal information. New Zeeland citizens are somehow in the middle. 58% of them are extremely concerned about online credit card fraud and the same percent present an exceedingly fear for identity thievery. A general conclusion is that citizens from these countries are more concerned about their financial security than the national security.

The truth is that there is indeed an increasingly number of online identity thievery but this is not a surprise considering the amount of people that manage their personal information or businesses online. The majority believe that is the financial institutions' fault if they become a victim and that these institutions must be responsible for preventing identity theft. From one point of view this is an opportunity for the banks to improve their technology and to stand up in front the ones with the best developed systems.

Considering the actual financial crisis it seems that we don't care so much if we are safe as long as our "money-box" is kept hidden to greedy eyes.