Security Awareness is More Important Than You Might Think
Tis’ the season and all but there isn’t much cheer on the info security front. I just read a frightening statistic: mobile phones are out shipping PCs by a 5 to 1 ratio, according to Unstrung.com. Yesterday I posted an entry about how small businesses are lacking even basic security in spite of their confidence in their security measures. Now I read that devices (which are becoming hand-held PCs) are landing in the hands of teenagers and not so techno-savy adults at a scary pace. Tis’ the season to lock down the network.
But don’t stop there. Security awareness is critical. I know it sounds soft and it’s not nearly as interesting as a good encryption algorithm, but we can’t control security risks with technology alone. Lets face it, the bad guys are leading on the technology front right now with million-device botnets, more resilient command and control mechanisms, and successful attacks on networks run by people that know info sec.
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Information security awareness is really important and that is true,that we cant control it all only with technology! The best way how to control that all and be prepare is making special information security awareness training!
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Posted by: Infosecuritylab | December 15, 2006 6:39 AM