
By Will Sturgeon
Published: Thursday 16 February 2006
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Name
Mark Nicholas
Location
UK
Occupation
Business Continuity Consultant
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It's interesting to say that 'Employees Don't Care about Security'. You know what, I think you're wrong. I think they do care, they're just not used to the continuous stream of social engineering techniques being launched at them in all manner of ways. The key here is 'Education'. Regularly keeping all employees abreast of the latest scam is the duty of the company, it's officers and corporate security team. How they do it is another matter, but to say employees don't care is simply overlooking those who need to take more responsibility on their (employees) behalf by being one step ahead where possible.
If no corporate details were gathered during this ...
Anonymous
It's interesting to say that 'Employees Don't Care...
Mark Nicholas
Excuse me, but it's not the responsibility of any ...
Merlin
Users generally don't care about security because ...
fatman
Dear Merlin. You've obviously missed the point. So...
Mark Nicholas
Dear Merlin. You've obviously missed the point. So...
Mark Nicholas
They don't understand.
If you ask those same empl...
Scott Hollingsworth
The companies were probably identified by the IP a...
Anonymous
That is why you should lock down "user" computers ...
Anonymous
I'm sure they logged the IP address from their cen...
Anonymous
A wild guess would be: By the IP-address of the co...
Tom Schultz
I used to work support for my organization's equip...
IT Guy
This proves nothing.
Anonymous
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