Blog Posts Tagged with "Dave Aitel"
Why Effective Awareness Training Matters
August 12, 2012 Added by:Brent Hutfless
Training and education are key elements to securing data. The advances in detection and monitoring solutions have placed more capable tools in the security professional’s toolbox, but APT attacks have grown in sophistication and perseverance – often leading to successful attacks and subsequent data loss...
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On Security Awareness Training
August 05, 2012 Added by:PCI Guru
Security awareness training has its place, but it is not a silver bullet. The world is full of risks and a security professional’s job is to minimize those risks and manage the remaining residual risk. This is why security is done in layers, so that when people make that mistake you minimize the impact...
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No Infosec Sacred Cows
August 02, 2012 Added by:Dave Shackleford
Most security awareness programs SUCK. I bet the majority of the awareness proselytizers are doing the same old crap with some stupid Web-based Flash thingie that people click through as fast as they can, and a little printout goes in their HR folder. UGH. That doesn’t work, never has, and never will...
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Is Security Awareness as Effective as We Imagine?
July 24, 2012 Added by:Hani Banayoti
We cannot relax our technical security deep-dive efforts just because we think we deliver good corporate security awareness. Did high profile technology and security companies like RSA, GlobalSign, DigiNotar, Sony, Yahoo, Linkedin etc, not have good security awareness when they got compromised? I'm sure they did...
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You Shouldn't Train Employees for Security Awareness: Rebuttal
July 23, 2012 Added by:Boris Sverdlik
I tried to keep my comments limited to Twitter, but with this pile up on Security Awareness, I felt an obligation to put my opinion out there once again. @Krypt3ia and @iiamit have both posted their rebuttals respectively calling each other wrong of course, but where's the excitement without debate?
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Throwing the Baby Out with the Bath Water
July 20, 2012 Added by:Scot Terban
You train employees to protect not only from clicking on links or suspect emails, but you also teach them good ethics as well as security hygiene. The cumulative effect will help you secure the environment and in tandem with your technical means, and make it all the better...
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