There’s nothing like telling a good horror story to encourage your employees — from senior executives to rank-and-file workers — to do their part in improving IT security. Cisco Chief Security Officer John Stewart has all the technological tools in the world at his fingertips to help keep the networking giant’s data and operations locked down.
Yet, while many people in similar positions in smaller and less profitable companies would give anything to have Stewart’s security team and budget at their disposal, the executive contends that his most powerful defense mechanism isn’t found among his racks of network filtering appliances or layers of AV systems, but rather in the domain of the spoken word. Scaring users into IT security | InfoWorld | News | 2008-03-18 | By Matt Hines
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