{"id":551,"date":"2004-08-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2004\/08\/06\/supervisors-say-subordinates-cause-most-security-screw-ups\/"},"modified":"2021-12-30T11:37:39","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T11:37:39","slug":"supervisors-say-subordinates-cause-most-security-screw-ups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/?p=551","title":{"rendered":"Supervisors Say Subordinates Cause Most Security Screw-ups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bosses point fingers at their workers when it comes to attacks on the company network, a study done by a U.K. research firm reported this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a survey of more than 1,200 small- and medium-sized businesses by the Institute of Directors, half said that they&#8217;d been hit by attacks caused by personnel &#8220;misuse.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Workers do dumb things, said managers, such as downloading non-work programs, opening worm-infected e-mail, and turning off security software.<\/p>\n<p>Done for security vendor McAfee, the survey said the second highest cause of security problems, at 45 percent, was due to poorly updated anti-virus software.  &#8220;All too often businesses are preoccupied with patching holes, updating anti-virus, and configuring firewalls without looking at the dangers posed by their employees,&#8221; said Sal Viveros, the director of McAfee&#8217;s small- and medium-sized enterprise group, in a statement.  &#8220;Businesses can have the most robust and integrated security system in the world but one rogue end user could still be responsible for introducing malicious code onto the network.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.techweb.com\/wire\/story\/TWB20040806S0004<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3038,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions\/3038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}