| Stupid security mistakes: Things you missed while doing the hard stuff
If you're worried about high-tech hackers using advanced and sinister techniques to break through your fancy firewalls -- well, that's not outside the realm of possibility. By all means, spend money on firewalls! But you may also want to keep in mind some distinctly low-tech security problems that are not particularly sophisticated -- in fact, some might call them distinctly dumb -- that nevertheless mean bad things for the companies or individuals who suffer them. The lesson: people will, if given the chance, pick dumb passwords. Have policies that force people to choose the least dumb passwords possible, and force them to change those passwords on a semi-regular basis. Paranoid sysadmins will keep their OS patches up-to-date, of course. Windows in particular has a reputation as a leaky ship, and so tech staffers -- particularly tech staffers who could have been in part responsible for picking Windows as the OS of choice -- are generally good at keeping all of those patches up to date.
Stupid security mistakes: Things you missed while doing the hard stuff |
Friday, 8 June 2012
Stupid security mistakes: Things you missed while doing the hard stuff
