10 crazy IT security tricks that actually work

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https://www.infoworld.com/d/security/10-crazy-it-security-tricks-actually-work-196864

By Roger A. Grimes
InfoWorld
July 09, 2012

Network and endpoint security may not strike you as the first place to 
scratch an experimental itch. After all, protecting the company's 
systems and data should call into question any action that may introduce 
risk. But IT security threats constantly evolve, and sometimes you have 
to think outside the box to keep ahead of the more ingenious evildoers.

And sometimes you have to get a little crazy.

Charles Babbage, the father of the modern computer, once said, "Propose 
to a man any principle, or an instrument, however admirable, and you 
will observe the whole effort is directed to find a difficulty, a 
defect, or an impossibility in it. If you speak to him of a machine for 
peeling a potato, he will pronounce it impossible: If you peel a potato 
with it before his eyes, he will declare it useless, because it will not 
slice a pineapple."

The world of network security is no different. Offer a new means for IT 
defense, and expect to meet resistance. Yet, sometimes going against the 
wave of traditional thinking is the surest path to success.

In that vein, we offer 10 security ideas that have been -- and in many 
cases still are -- shunned as too offbeat to work but that function 
quite effectively in helping secure the company's IT assets. The 
companies employing these methods don't care about arguing or placating 
the naysayers. They see the results and know these methods work, and 
they work well.

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