The average U.S. company of 1,000 employees or more spends $15 million a year battling cybercrime. Attacks involving malicious code, malware, viruses, worms, trojans and botnets accounted for 40 percent of this cost. It takes an average of 46 days to contain a successful attack after it has been detected, Ponemon Institute says. The research was sponsored by HP Security, sponsored by the U.K., Japan, Germany, Australia, Brazil, Brazil and Russia.”]