Were you to work in a certain Federal Government agency, every morning you walked through the front door, you'd have to use three security cards and type up to 10 passwords - all before your first cup of coffee. The employees . . .
Were you to work in a certain Federal Government agency, every morning you walked through the front door, you'd have to use three security cards and type up to 10 passwords - all before your first cup of coffee. The employees have a simple solution: they leave their security cards in their desk drawers and sticky notes with passwords on the wall. Let's face it: security is a pain.

As "Gan", a highly skilled Australian hacker who used to break into systems illegally, says, "Security prevents people doing things - it's designed to automate authoritarian tendencies in an organisation.

"It works like the French legal system: you're guilty until proven innocent."

For the average IT manager, security is a headache. No one notices when you do it right, but, oh, do you hear about it when you've done it wrong. Finding the balance between security and convenience means understanding the threat. So what is out there?

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