People are the weakest link. You can have the best technology, firewalls, intrusion-detection systems, biometric devices - and somebody can call an unsuspecting employee. That's all she wrote, baby. They got everything.Kevin Mitnick,
ex-hacker & security consultant
The more a company seeks to leverage information technology (IT), the greater the risk it represents and the more it needs to practice effective IT Governance. However, IT security expenditures may have little effect if the practices and mindset of the workforce are not addressed.
When it comes to securing your company’s valuable data resources an informed, motivated and compliant workforce is your best defense.
Increasingly, information security focuses less on traditional weaknesses like infrastructure and technology and more on the human element. An organization’s assets and reputation can be profoundly affected by social engineering attacks whereby individuals using personal manipulation, deception and influence gain access to sensitive information. A password is only as strong as a person’s willingness to keep it secret.
The issues of data security are changing at an ever increasing rate. Protiviti provides a wide variety of security and privacy assessment, architecture, transformation, and management services to help organizations identify and address security and privacy vulnerabilities before they become problems.
Creative Options can leverage Protiviti’s content expertise into engaging communications and training initiatives to shape the attitudes and behaviors required to create reliable data protection.
