Security Now Blog: Addressing Today's Information Security Issues

If your business partners are accessing your sensitive data on your mission critical servers, you may find yourself living in excessively interesting times. (more…)

In general, IT personnel are far more knowledgeable and skilled than end-users when it comes to information security. Consequently, IT personnel prefer to limit what end-users can do on their assigned endpoints by provisioning end-users without administrative privileges. This sounds reasonable: the less users can do to alter their machines, the less likely they are to expose their networks and systems to security breaches. By the way, minimizing dependence on end-users making correct information security decisions is almost always good policy.

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Many perceive anti-virus software as providing ‘fire and forget’ endpoint protection. It does not!

Many factors can interfere with the proper operation of these and other security tools such as anti-spyware, personal firewalls, and disk encryption.

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