[72523] in North American Network Operators' Group
Controls are ineffective without user cooperation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Fri Jul 16 01:23:25 2004
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 01:22:50 -0400 (EDT)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Donn S. Parker pointed out controls are ineffective without user
cooperation.
According to an AT&T sponsored survey, 78% of executives admitted to
opening attachments from unknown senders in the last year, 29% used their
own name or birthday as a "secure" password, 17% accessed the company
network in a public place and didn't log out, 9% informally shared
a network password with someone outside of the company.
http://www.att.com/news/item/0,1847,13137,00.html
The survey included relatively few people, 254 executives from Europe,
North America ans Asia-Pacific regions.
