According to a recent survey, most IT professionals admit to personally breaking security policies at some time, knowingly or otherwise. More than half said they had copied confidential data onto USB memory sticks, although 87 percent said it was against company policy. So everyone who is surprised by this, please raise your hand.
Analysis and Commentary, Incidents
IT Pros Routinely Break the Rules
Analysis and Commentary, Incidents
More Laptop Thefts
Are stories involving the loss or theft of a laptop containing sensitive information are on the rise, or is it just me? Maybe it’s just that October has been a busy month for laptop thieves.
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Should CIOs Heads Roll?
Imprisoned hacker Robert Moore says it was child’s play to dig into thousands of corporate systems because most IT groups don’t follow basic hygiene such as resetting default passwords and keeping logs. Is it the CIO’s fault? If so, should he be fired? Reprimanded? I can tell you for certain that the people who tend to expose a company to being hacked are the admins. Why? Because they’re the only ones with the elevated system and network privileges to bypass the security policies and settings that everyone else has to abide by.
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I’ll take ‘Fear’ for $100 Alex.
OK, top of the category…
As reported by The Register , Symantec's DeepSight went off the DeepEnd. Apparently, some product testing caused the ThreatDown ThreatCon level to go from 1 to 4 (that would be like going from "Honky Dory" to "The Apocolypse"). Unfortunately, an official response from Symantec has not been found at this time. More info can be found in this Computerworld article.
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