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Wednesday, June 22, 2016

Weakest Link In Computer Security

Employees Are the Weakest Link in Computer Security

Even the best technology can’t offset weak employee passwords and carelessness.

Tom Krazit | June 20, 2016



If your company is like most, you’re spending an awful lot of your information technology budget on security: security products to protect your organization, security consultants to help you understand where your weaknesses lie, and lawyers to sort out the inevitable mess when something goes wrong. That approach can work, but it fails to consider the weakest link in your security fence: your employees.

Source: http://www.slideshare.net/FinleyEngineering/cybersecurity-are-your-employees-your-weakest-link

<more at http://fortune.com/2016/06/20/employees-computer-security/; related articles and links: http://www.cso.com.au/blog/cso-bloggers/2016/06/21/human-all-too-human-securitys-weakest-link/ (Human, all too human: Security’s weakest link. June 21, 2016) and http://www.forbes.com/sites/joannabelbey/2015/02/27/the-weakest-link-in-cybersecurity/ (The Weakest Link In Cybersecurity. February 26, 2015)>

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