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Controls are ineffective without user cooperation

  • From: Sean Donelan
  • Date: Fri Jul 16 01:24:45 2004

Donn S. Parker pointed out controls are ineffective without user
cooperation.

According to an AT&T sponsored survey, 78% of executives admitted to
opening attachments from unknown senders in the last year, 29% used their
own name or birthday as a "secure" password, 17% accessed the company
network in a public place and didn't log out, 9% informally shared
a network password with someone outside of the company.

http://www.att.com/news/item/0,1847,13137,00.html

The survey included relatively few people, 254 executives from Europe,
North America ans Asia-Pacific regions.