Re: Linked-in and its Phishing-like contacts option!

["Gautier . Rich" <RGautier () drc com>]

Yes, that's what I meant...turn off Webmail access entirely - I was mostly kidding - but if it's something that you can 
afford to do [users all have working VPNs, e.g.] - it would reduce a great deal of risk. ;)
Oh, and can that guy who gave the "God, whatever you do, don't fire your network geek" speech please come and give a 
motivational speech here?

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Behalf Of Jim Seymour
Sent: Friday, April 26, 2013 11:39 AM
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Subject: Re: [fw-wiz] Linked-in and its Phishing-like contacts option!

On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 19:26:01 +0000
"Gautier . Rich" <RGautier () drc com> wrote:

> Thoughts? I'm wondering why User Operational Security falls under the
> realm of Firewall Wizards..

I think of it this way: Firewall security, in and of itself, doesn't get the job done.  You may have the most 
bullet-proof border the world has ever seen, but, unless that bullet-proof-ness means essentially blocking everything, 
both incoming and outgoing, it will not be enough.  A layered defense is mandatory.  One of those layers is end-user 
operational security.

Our goal is to protect the organizational jewels, no?

Besides: We've pretty-much beaten stateful/deep-packet inspection vs.
application proxy to death, no? :)

> ... plenty of users seem to
> be perfectly willing to accept the risk (or be unaware of it).

Both, IME.

> However, not much you can do on the firewall side other than turning
> off webmail access...

Turning off webmail access?  How would one accomplish  that, exactly, without essentially turning off web access 
entirely?

As for LinkedIn: I've received so many LinkedIn emails reported as spam at work that they've occasionally been there.  
I may have them listed on my mailserver at home, for the same reason. (Possibly so. Can't say as I've seen LinkedIn 
spam for a while.)

This nonsense of them asking for "work email password" is grounds, in _my_ view, to block them entirely.  That's 
intolerable.  I'm going to see if I can do that.

But I'm old school.  I don't believe convenience, golly-gee-whiz-bang, and _especially_ "social networking" ought to 
trump security.  Generally my bosses tend to agree. (Esp. ever since a couple of the Big Guys attended some-or-another 
network security briefing, which incl. a retired FBI agent, and were told that "whatever your network security is, it's 
probably not good enough" and "for God's sake, whatever you do, do not lose your network geek" ;).)

Regards,
Jim
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