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Workers Cause More Problems Than Viruses

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the going-postal dept.

Technical Writing Geek writes "A new report finds that, for the first time, virus infections have slipped to the second spot on the list of computer security troublemakers. In first place— a company's own workers. 'The Computer Security Institute has just released the 2007 edition (PDF) of its long-running "Computer Crime and Security Survey," and it offers some dreary news for overworked computer security admins: average losses from attacks have surged this year. More surprising is the finding that the single biggest security threat faced by corporate networks doesn't come from virus writers any more; instead, it comes from company insiders.'"

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  1. Re:Ignoring the Human Factor is not Bliss by EvanED · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Requesting the whole organization use tinfoil hat Linux boxes; with 256bit end to end encryption; with all outgoing and incoming packets sniffed, duplicated and logged; 16 character mixed special char, numeric, and alphabetic passwords; Faraday cages around every office; may be excessive even for the NSA

    Actually I bet the NSA is doing everything you name, except for the 256bit thing. I'm sure they're using at least 4096 bit encryption (assuming RS). Maybe biometrics instead of the fancy passwords.

    But you can be sure that the rooms are faraday cages; even the CIA does that. ;-)

    (The CIA also has double walls between which they pump white noise so that people can't read the vibrations of the glass with laser meters. The building is magnetically shielded so people can't "read" the monitors of people remotely.)