With increasing cyber attacks, global IT association ISACA on Saturday sought greater awareness across not just corporates, but also individual Internet users.

According to R Vittal Raj, International Vice-President, ISACA, as consumers carry around and use more devices that contain their personal information, the need for security increases. Nearly 90 per cent of consumers have expressed fears about their information being hacked.

“The most vulnerable sector, he maintained, was the financial sector including banking,” he told reporters during a media conference.

Raj was in the city to attend a conference organised by the Kolkata chapter of ISACA.

Interestingly around 69 per cent of the IT professionals said they were concerned about the decreasing levels of personal privacy, ISACA said in it is 2014 ‘IT Risk/ Reward Barometer’.

ISACA will also conduct various awareness programmes across colleges.