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Re: Controls are ineffective without user cooperation
From: "Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 13:18:34 GMT
...and security, access-controls, etc. have to have a transparency and ease-of-use factor such that legitimate users don't actively attempt to bypass it themselves. :-) - ferg -- Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com> wrote: Donn S. Parker pointed out controls are ineffective without user cooperation. According to an AT&T sponsored survey, 78% of executives admitted to opening attachments from unknown senders in the last year, 29% used their own name or birthday as a "secure" password, 17% accessed the company network in a public place and didn't log out, 9% informally shared a network password with someone outside of the company. http://www.att.com/news/item/0,1847,13137,00.html The survey included relatively few people, 254 executives from Europe, North America ans Asia-Pacific regions. -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
Current thread:
- Controls are ineffective without user cooperation Sean Donelan (Jul 15)
- Re: Controls are ineffective without user cooperation Christopher L. Morrow (Jul 15)
- Re: Controls are ineffective without user cooperation Dave Dennis (Jul 15)
- Re: Controls are ineffective without user cooperation Christopher L. Morrow (Jul 15)
- Re: Controls are ineffective without user cooperation Stephen J. Wilcox (Jul 17)
- Re: Controls are ineffective without user cooperation Peter Galbavy (Jul 17)
- Re: Controls are ineffective without user cooperation Patrick W Gilmore (Jul 17)
- Re: Controls are ineffective without user cooperation Krzysztof Adamski (Jul 17)
- Re: Controls are ineffective without user cooperation Dave Dennis (Jul 15)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Controls are ineffective without user cooperation Fergie (Paul Ferguson) (Jul 16)
- Re: Controls are ineffective without user cooperation Christopher L. Morrow (Jul 15)