Comments on: Save us from the other people http://secforall.info/2008/10/27/save-us-from-the-other-people/ Security for everyone. Wed, 21 Dec 2011 23:11:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Using public Wi-Fi safely « Security For All http://secforall.info/2008/10/27/save-us-from-the-other-people/#comment-258 Wed, 08 Apr 2009 16:54:09 +0000 http://webjoseph425.wordpress.com/?p=327#comment-258 [...] [UPDATE] The blog entry referenced earlier is from Thomas Nicholson at Nicholson Security blog entitled People will always be the weakest link in security. In addition, I referenced it earlier in this blog in an entry entitled Save us from the other people [...]

]]> By: CG http://secforall.info/2008/10/27/save-us-from-the-other-people/#comment-100 Mon, 27 Oct 2008 23:04:00 +0000 http://webjoseph425.wordpress.com/?p=327#comment-100 Good post it is important to realize that almost all of security people are part of the “they” to the users and not usually the “we”.

That being said, I’m still of the opinion that people rise to the bar we set up for them. Currently that sort of behavior AND lack of proper training (by the “they”) is “acceptable”. Maybe not on paper but in reality thats the case. Non-security people overlook it because “they were just trying to get work done.”

We are a ways from a solid technical measure to stop that sort of behavior and getting proper behavior trained into doing things correctly from a security perspective. The answer will be “just getting the work done…but doing it securely.” How do we get there? A good combination of technical measures and leadership understanding the impact of situations like the one above and how detrimental to the company it could be.

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