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June 9, 2005 Volume 1, Number 6 |
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This Issue · Security |
Technology Report:
A Security
State of Mind
Security is not a checkbox. Security
is a state of mind.
Users
need to be educated on security. There are
definite items directly related to security that every organization needs to
have. These include:
But security is more than any one
of these items. You can lock down rights as much as possible, but as soon as
you give your password to a co-worker, you have lost any hope of security. This
seems obvious, but in the real world, end users have not been adequately
trained. During World War II, training for security was a top priority for
the military. To this day, we remember the saying, “Loose lips sink ships.” Not to be
melodramatic, but your network really is under attack every day. The attacks
can come from a variety of sources; viruses, spyware, competitors and, more
often than you’d think, your own employees. At a
system level, we can help to ensure the network is secure as possible. We can
force antivirus programs to be updated and stop the user from turning the
protection off. We can force Windows updates to be applied to their desktops.
But when it comes down to it, the laziest employee can ultimately destroy
security. This is the true definition of the weakest link analogy. Truthfully,
a big contributor to the problem is ultimately management. Management often
takes the attitude that the effort to be secure is not worth the cost. After
all, what is the true cost of security failures? These failures come in many
different forms. They include lost productivity due to virus outbreaks, lost
data, potential loss of intellectual data. Notice that I haven’t even
addressed the Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPPA, CAL-SB1386 or other legal requirements.
These requirements are the way the government is trying to get everyone on
the security bandwagon. And
again, we need to remember that security is more than a Technical problem.
We’ve all heard of the stories of companies having security breaches simply
because they’ve lost their backup tapes. These stories are not the result of
technical failures. Rather, they are the result of process problems. When you
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