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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
...and security, access-controls, etc. have to have a transparency and ease-of-use factor such that legitimate users don't actively attempt to bypass it themselves. :-) - ferg -- Sean Donelan <[email protected]> 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. 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. -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet [email protected] or [email protected]
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