I came across “Jim Rapoza’s 12 Ways to be a Security Idiot” on eWeek. If you have not seen this yet, I recommend that you take a look at this nifty piece.

Basically it contains some very nicely done graphical slides about the various (many) things that your typical “Security Idiot” would do that will compromise IT security. Most of which no doubt you would be already familiar with: like setting one’s password as “password”, succumbing to Nigeria scams, opening attachment that are executables, disabling one’s firewall, running anti-virus with outdated definitions and so on and so forth.

To the average folks down at the IT helpdesk, they will probably see it as quite humorous, righteously poking fun at the average user’s security posture, or should I say, lack of. One on level, I can certainly appreciate the situation – myself having mounted my fair share rescue “operations” on friends’, relatives’, bosses’, colleagues, ailing terminals that were totally hosed with virus or/and adware among other unspeakable things.

Anyway, those slides had me thinking a bit and my comments pertaining to this sort of grew to an article length. And so I shall be posting it as a separate article shortly, once I finish it off. Stay tuned!

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