No matter how much an organisation spends on technical defences against threats to information security, it can be undone by one employee making a careless decision. So why aren’t organisations focussing more effort on securing humans?
Organisations cannot thwart every possible attack levelled against devices in their network but they can still contain a threat before it causes serious damage.
The RSA security conference in the US was on, bringing information-security professionals from around the globe – and pundits onto the stage (check out our photo gallery here). The head of RSA told security professionals they needed to get rid of old mindsets when considering security, while an expert panel concluded that giving encryption keys to the US National Security Agency (NSA) was a bad idea; other experts said a proposed key-escrow plan it just wouldn't work.
David Braue | 27 Apr | Read more