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Re: Controls are ineffective without user cooperation

  • From: Christopher L. Morrow
  • Date: Fri Jul 16 01:30:53 2004 
On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, Sean Donelan wrote:

>
> 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.

surprised? if you don't teach the baby the consequences then they continue
to behave badly. I suppose it IS a little bit tough to tell the executive:
"Bad Exec!! NO COOKIE!!!" or the equivalent in execu-speak :(

>
> 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.
>