The biggest threat to corporate security today may well be the plethora of security products that are widely deployed. This is not to say that companies should not invest in security, but rather that more attention needs to be paid . . .
The biggest threat to corporate security today may well be the plethora of security products that are widely deployed. This is not to say that companies should not invest in security, but rather that more attention needs to be paid to matching solutions to needs, ensuring that solutions are not patchworked, and administering them properly once they are installed. This is a theme that users will be discussing in depth at the upcoming Infosecurity conference in April.

There is no point in deploying a fantastic access control solution that requires a user to insert a smartcard if they are only going to leave the card on their desk when they go home.

However often security professionals rewrite the corporate security policy, and whatever penalties are imposed for non-compliance, users continue to break the rules.

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