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
From around the Web
- Free Honeypot Client Could Sting Malware
- What Firewalls Do & Donot Do
- Opera Continues to Lead the Pack
- Zonebak Trojan Removal
- PCAntiSpyware Removal
- SpyMaxx Removal
- Qvdntlmw Toolbar Removal
- The ultimate identity theft: house stealing
- Fake Google Calender meeting invitations used in new spam attack
- Spam Goes More and More Mobile
- They Told You Not To Reply
- Should Microsoft Throw Away Vista?
- Angry Vista users vent over SP1 driver issues
- Safari 3.1 Crashes On Windows XP, Users Complain
- The New Browser War is Good for Microsoft
- Block spam, phishing attempts in Outlook
- Symantec fingers D Link for bot attacks
- WhiteHat: 90% of Sites Still Vulnerable
- Red Hat releases free security code
- ValueClick to pay $2.9 million to settle spam complaint
- Securitypills.com Removal
- Want Vista SP1? Here is what to expect
- 99 Windows Vista Performance Tips and Tweaks
- Set Internet Explorer and Firefox to maximize your security
- Has Vista lost all credibility?
- How to Remove SpyGuardPro (SpyGuardPro removal)
- How to Remove AntispywareDeluxe (AntispywareDeluxe removal)
- How to Remove Winfix Master (Winfix Master removal)
- How to Remove AntivirusPCSuite (AntivirusPCSuite removal)
- How to Remove AntivirusForAll (AntivirusForAll removal)
- Security lapse exposes Facebook photos
- Top Tips to Mobile Data Security
- iPhone DoS vulnerability
- Kaspersky launches Mobile Security 7.0 protection for smartphones
- Mobile subscribers showered with spam
- HOW TO: Synchronize Folders Between Computers Fri, 28 Mar 2008 06:20:06
- HOW TO: Set Up Dynamic DNS Fri, 28 Mar 2008 06:17:33
- HOW TO: Install Safari on Ubuntu with Flash and Shockwave! Fri, 28 Mar 2008 06:15:06
- HOW TO: Read The Wall Street Journal’s Web site for free Fri, 28 Mar 2008 06:11:19
- HOW TO: Secure Your EMail and IM Communications Fri, 28 Mar 2008 06:06:06