Re: Your neighbor's security is critical to your security

[Babak Pasdar <bpasdar () igxglobal com>]

I knew I would get into trouble citing mama Pasdar's old proverbs :)

On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 16:26 -0500, Simon Smith wrote:
> Are you suggesting that my house is a mess?
>
> Babak Pasdar wrote:
> > Here is a recent blog entry on why your neighbor's security is important
> > to your organization's security.
> >
> >
> > When I was a child, my mother would share with me a proverb about a
> > woman who lived in a large village. This woman was, using today's terms,
> > a clean freak. She would clean her house day and night, inside and out,
> > but it still would not be clean. So she went to the village elder and
> > asked what she could do so that her house would finally be clean.
> >
> > The elder responded, if you want your house to be clean, you should talk
> > to your neighbors and make sure their homes are clean. This was
> > surprising to the woman who asked why her neighbor's cleanliness would
> > affect her?
> >
> > The elder shared that if the area around her house is clean then there
> > will be less dirt that can find it's way into her house.
> >
> > The same holds true with technology security. So many organizations are
> > extremely engaged in making their security the best it can be. Despite
> > any efforts, what would happen if only 2% of the Internet decided to
> > Ping your site or systems at the same time. Regardless of the capacity
> > you boast and the big boxes in your environment, you would go down for
> > that moment. 
> >
> > Read the rest here...
> > http://dsb.igxglobal.com/plugins/content/content.php?content.39
> >
> >
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