eWeek had a great article/annoying slide show about the top 10 security risks that your users pose to your organization. One interesting thing I noted was with all of the increases in security (firewalls, IPS/IDS, NAC, password hardening, etc) in today’s organization, most of these are not even looked at.
Consider the simple of someone to walk out with their laptop and have it lost on the train (with not encryption)… Or someone with P2P software on their machine (that is sharing out their entire C drive)… Or worse yet, wifi (without separating it from the rest of the network) that isn’t secured with WPA2… Oh the horror!
- USB Flash Drives
- Laptops
- P2P
- Web Mail
- Wi-Fi
- Smart Phones
- Collaboration Tools
- Social Networks
- Unauthorized Software Updates
- Virtual Worlds
What are some of the other security risks you can think of that companies face?
Tags: Email, firewall, ips, laptop, nac, phones, protection, risk, Security, Software, tools, usb p2p, User, Wifi
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