- Mar 10, 2024
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I do believe when users respond many times than not here they do not thoroughly read what they are responding to, and are just in a hurry to silence or berate someone.Security is as strong as the weakest link. Problem with education is that people always think they are qualified and know everything. Companies can give their employees awareness training and force them to chance passwords and use strong unique passwords. Education might comes first, but it can never be your last resort, because people still write passwords on yellow notes and stick them on the screens. You want some safetynet or defense beneath that. When education would be the silver bullet than the security awareness month would not be nessecary (note that is running for 20 years now).
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It is "without being spoken" understood even though I stated Education must come first, that it does not stop thereafter. Mostly this thread was directed at home users and the community here, but can apply also to Corporate. As stated earlier, corporations have significant security in place, and its weakest link "uninformed people" are generally how they get breached now days. Education is everything. Part of this education is proper handling of sensitive items such as Passwords. For home users, having that net underneath them is as what I already stated with techniques such as credit freezes and offline banking protections established.
Its already been shown that security software will not save users from themselves if they are uninformed and uneducated or simply lacking in the "care" department and just click on or allow things, and especially the " I'm going to disable this and run it anyway" crowd.
Places like this one, where users are willing to share and help educate suffer greatly from the "know-it all crowd" as well, when they derail, and tear up threads to the point where others lose interest or the actual useful information is buried. Many times redirecting attention to out of context statements.