Re: [SC-L] Protecting users from their own actions

2004-07-07 Thread Kenneth R. van Wyk
Wall, Kevin wrote: Isn't this something that users probably shouldn't be given a choice on? Normally I would think that corporate security policy dictate keeping the AV software / signatures up-to-date as well as dictating the (personal) firewall configurations. Some centrally administered software

RE: [SC-L] Protecting users from their own actions

2004-07-06 Thread Wall, Kevin
In Ken van Wyk's cited article at http://www.esecurityplanet.com/views/article.php/3377201 he writes... > As I said above, user awareness training is a fine practice > that shouldn't be abandoned. Users are our first defense > against security problems, and they should certainly be > educa

[SC-L] Protecting users from their own actions

2004-07-06 Thread Kenneth R. van Wyk
Hi All, FYI... This topic has come up here a few times, so I thought that I'd send a pointer to my July eSecurityPlanet column (http://www.esecurityplanet.com/views/article.php/3377201 - free, no registration required). In the column, I take the seemingly unpopular view --at least in this gr