Ask your IT Professionals, “Has any vendor, even the bank, asked us to reduce security levels on any of our machines or the network?” Counterintuitively, the bank often tells your IT professionals to disable important security protection. This happens when your bank...
Question to ask your IT Professional: “Who outside of our company can log in as an administrator?” What happened at Target is that Target provided at least one of their vendors with username and password credentials to log in to Target’s corporate network. Attackers...
This segment of the ongoing series “What to ask your IT Professionals” addresses an almost universal problem: Proactivity in the IT department Ask IT: “How do you prioritize your day?” Every time an IT Professional wants to be proactive, they take into consideration...
The next question you need to ask your IT Professionals is: “Do you have to reduce security in order for all of our programs to work properly?” Last time’s message recommended that you ask your IT professionals to restrict users from being “administrators” on their...
