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From: pauls at utdallas.edu (Paul Schmehl) Subject: [inbox] Re: CyberInsecurity: The cost of Monopoly --On Monday, September 29, 2003 19:30:24 -0600 Bruce Ediger <eballen1@...st.net> wrote: > > I realize you're from Texas and everything, but are you nuts? > An 8-year old with a handgun should cause vast feelings of insecurity > in you, with or without proper training on her part. > Hmmm...I am from Texas, and I can tell you that many an eight year old learns to handle firearms down here. Not all of Texas is citified, you know. We still have a lot of open range with coyotes and ground hogs and other things to shoot at. > Besides that, what do you mean by "proper safety training" for a computer > used? If you mean the failed "don't click on any attachments, don't > open email from someone you don't know" recipe-style of training, then no > to that too. > No, I meant proper security training. Is that so hard to understand? Regardless of the OS, every user should know how and why to patch. Every user should understand what social engineering is, how to detect it and what to do about it. Every user should understand physical security, locking your workstation, why you should logout and when, etc., etc. Every user should understand the basics of malicious code, how to spot it, what to do about it, how to recognize hoaxes, where the resources are when they need help. Without user training and an educated user community, no security program can ever hope to succeed. Paul Schmehl (pauls@...allas.edu) Adjunct Information Security Officer The University of Texas at Dallas AVIEN Founding Member http://www.utdallas.edu
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