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| Subject: | Re: [ISN] Staff 'need reasons' to believe in security |
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| Date: | Sun, 16 Oct 2005 23:03:30 -0500 (CDT) |
Forwarded from: Harlan Carvey <keydet89@yahoo.com> Cc: edit@zdnet.com.au
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/security/soa/Staff_need_reasons_to_believe_in_security/0,2000061744,39217156,00.htm By Tom Espiner ZDNet UK 14 October 2005 Companies must ensure that their staff understand the reasons behind security policies and support them, rather than just dictating them from on high,
Here it is...the latter half of 2005, and this is being reported as "news"? Sorry, but security professionals have been saying this since the early days of infosec. It doesn't take a rocket scientist or a brain surgeon to understand what you see when senior management dictates any sort of policy to the assembled masses, and doesn't bother to follow it themselves. Wow. HC ------------------------------------------ Harlan Carvey, CISSP "Windows Forensics and Incident Recovery" http://www.windows-ir.com http://windowsir.blogspot.com ------------------------------------------ _________________________________________ InfoSec News v2.0 - Coming Soon! http://www.infosecnews.org
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