The vast majority of IT executives are unfamiliar with all of the
principles of security, firewalls, coding, whatever.
Are they unfamiliar because of background or they feel that their staff
has a handle on it and therefore don't need to pay much atention to it.
Both have different
Ben,
Good comments. It may be true that older technology is what today's Sr
Managers have the most familiarity with, however... In my opinion, it's not
that familiarity that we (or they) should rely on, in order to be
well-informed, and thus be making good security-related decisions. It's no
James,
You misunderstood my comments wrt older technologies. My points were:
1) We should not expect people rooted in older technology contexts to
naturally understand problems in modern technology contexts if their jobs
have not required them to evolve their thinking.
2) In trying to effectively
