On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 01:19:53PM -0800, Jason Spence wrote:
> Wozz wrote:
>
> > The overuse of these home "firewall" solutions is making overall security
> > worse, IMHO. I spend a majority of my time at work filtering through stuff
> > like this, and not spending time working on things that would actually improve
> > security. Thankfully, I've just recently gotten approval to hire someone to
> > just sit there and sift through all this junk for me.
>
> I'm in a very similar situation, and I look at it as an opportunity to
> educate the users (finally I have a reason!). They're either going to
> complain to us or to the FBI's cybercrime unit about these problems. If we
> intervene, we get a chance to educate them about good security practices and
> everyone is happy. If the FBI intervenes, then they're going to take
> responsibility and all sorts of undesirable things happen.
>
Well, as much as I'd like to, I'm not being paid to educate users, I'm being
paid to protect our network. I'm hoping to setup a auto-responder in the near
future that explains what is useful and what is not, and then provide them
with a link to a web page to enter information on an incident.
Received on Mar 01 2000
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