North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Controls are ineffective without user cooperation
On Sat, 17 Jul 2004, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote: > > On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: > > > > 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 :( > > I was looking at a friends PC, her mother uses it and she's a bit of a > technophobe... I was upset that it hadnt had any of the windows updates > installed since last time I looked at the PC a year ago even tho windows was > popping up all the time pleading to be updated! > > I attempted to explain the whys and what fors and was surprised at her > reaction.. she still didnt want to run the updates even tho she now understood > what they do. 2 reasons: > > 1) she's overwhelmed by the amount of things that pop up at you, ask you to > click on them, tell you theyre an email from microsoft etc etc > > 2) she "only uses the pc for web browsing, if it gets infected theres no harm > that can be done" > > So how do you argue with that? There is a very simple way of demonstrating the problem of viruses on her PC to her. Install a modem in the PC and connect it to the phone line. It won't be long till she gets one of the the viruses that dial a long distance location. Her next phone bill will demonstrate to her why having a clean PC is important. This has worked for my in-law. He was the one who plugged the modem back into the phone line after I unplugged it and told him no to have it plugged in. K
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