Real IT security on a limited budget?

✍ Scribed by Peter Wood

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 61 KB
• Volume: 2004
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1353-4858
• DOI: 10.1016/s1353-4858(04)00069-8

✦ Synopsis

Let's look at where things really go wrong. What has had the biggest impact on businesses over the last couple of years? The answer has to be viruses and worms. And these only succeed for two reasons -user ignorance and unpatched systems. So here are the first two areas for spend: effectively educating users on malware, and keeping servers and workstations patched up to the minute.

Train the users

Effective user education really means a marketing campaign. A co-ordinated programme using low-cost ideas such as logon screens, mouse mats, posters and competitions can be very sucessful yet inexpensive. It just requires some brainstorming and cooperation.