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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Controls are ineffective without user cooperation
Tell them that every time they click on that thing, it costs $1000 to disinfect the LAN and keep the firewall up to date. Caveat: have yet to actually try this approach, but seems like it would have a chance at least. +------------------------- + Dave Dennis + Seattle, WA + [email protected] + http://www.dmdennis.com +------------------------- On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: > > > 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. > > >
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