One of the biggest problems with passwords is that secure ones seem hard to remember, need to be changed often, and should be phrases with numbers and symbols instead of just single words that can be found in a dictionary. Many organizations have a culture where the...
One of the biggest challenges many companies face is having users that work off-site and need to connect to the Internet. The users may be at a construction site, performing an accounting audit at a customer site, working from a hotel or conference center, or be in...
When I ask IT professionals why their users have blank passwords or use words like “password” for their password, the IT professional explains “my boss told me I had to leave it that way!” The same goes for restricting Instant Messenger, or...
An IT professional discovered an unauthorized computer on the network! “I know all our computer names and I knew this one did not belong. I immediately called our consultants thinking we were being compromised. They said the computer was in our office. I...
