Educate your manger on the importance of Security.Tell him ,Security should
always have Top - down approach (Meaning,security should start from
Management to Technical).I come across lot of security related incidents
,when I go for auditing.
cheers
At 08:23 PM 1/29/2003 +0100, [EMAIL
There are stories in the media of identity theft, mass credit card fraud
and various forms of industrial espionage on least a monthly basis.
The bigger issue is that security MUST come from top down. I'm not sure
of the of laws in your corner of the globe, but you may be able to
convince him
On the other hand, users setting up their own
dial-in
modems at their desks is virtually impossible to
implement, configure, and manage/monitor
appropriately.
Actually, it's not all that difficult. Configure the
phone switch such that those dial-out lines that you
do need do not havd DiDs,
Well , I can't really point you to such stories , but , I do ,however , have
an advise for you based on personal experiance.
make sure the proper people know about the risks (remote account hacking,
locking , being as secure as the remote mail server which is usually a
bigger target for hackers) -
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-Original Message-
From: squid [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 30 January 2003 04:09
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: Actual Security Cases
You might want to look at Secrets and Lies : Digital
Security in a Networked World
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From: H C [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: January 30, 2003 13:13
Unfortunately, some of what you're asking isn't really
the issue you may think it is...for example, no
remote access via modem (depending on exactly what
you mean). Remote access isn't that much
You might want to look at Secrets and Lies : Digital
Security in a Networked World By Bruce Schneier.
Even though it does not specificaly cover the risks of
forwarding email from a corporate account to a
personal account such as AOL or Yahoo, it does cover
how a lot of the need to mantain
Does anybody know a good internet source of actual security related real
life cases? I know that it's a risk to forward corporate mail to
internet e-mail account like AOL or gmx. But I need a case like in
january 2001 the aol accounts of xyz got cracked and a lot of
confidential data was
