Security Incidents: Re: @home: Is *anyone* really home there???

[wozz+incidents () WOOKIE NET (Wozz)]

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.