With over 10 years experience of defending against Internet security threats, he’s pretty much seen it all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Failing to archive firewall log files: Firewalls are often correctly configured with full logging enabled.<\/p>\n
Not knowing where your passwords are documented: Nothing makes supporting customers more of a challenge than if they cannot remember where their passwords are documented.<\/p>\n
Not scanning e-mails for viruses: Without question, e-mail borne viruses are today the biggest Internet security threat.<\/p>\n
Not blocking Instant Messaging on your firewall: With Microsoft now in a big push to get people using its IM technology we are beginning to see IM clients freely deployed in businesses, mainly by users.<\/p>\n
Depending on users to patch their own workstations: Let’s face it, users are terrible at following instructions<\/p>\n
Not having an incident response plan: All networking and security professionals know that even with the best planning in the world, something will still go wrong.<\/p>\n
Failing to disable accounts for departed employees: You would not believe how frequently HR fails to tell IT that an employee has left the business.<\/p>\n
Failing to configure any security on a wireless access point: We all know wireless is here to stay.<\/p>\n
Not keeping your firewall patched: This is pretty much tantamount to paying for an expensive lock on your front door at home and then leaving the keys in the lock – on the outside!<\/p>\n
Not securing home PCs with their own firewall, VPN and virus detection<\/p>\n
More info: [url=http:\/\/www.biosmagazine.co.uk\/op.php?id=77]http:\/\/www.biosmagazine.co.uk\/op.php?id=77[\/url]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2523,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions\/2523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}