Users are the weakest link, security experts warn

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

Users are the weakest link, security experts warn | Computerworld News & Features Story

This is pretty good stuff. This article really shows the things you need your senior management folks to know and buy into. It took me a long time to get folks here to buy into security, and since it’s still in the roll-out process, the true tests are still to come. I’m sure in the coming weeks I’ll know a whole lot more about how much buy in there really is, and how much was just to get me off their back. Obviously, I hope they are serious about this.

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