, 2005-06-30
Not too long ago my wife and I decided to try out a Chinese restaurant in our area we had never visited before. I was looking at the menu and my wife gasped, then laughed a bit. I looked up and she pointed out a rat crawling right under the restaurant's buffet table.
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1) Servers with excess baggage. Do you really need a media player, web browser and 3d gaming support library installed on your server by default? More surface area may mean a bigger target.
2) Field techies with domain admin or full directory tree rights. This is more common than most companies will ever admit to.
3) Lack of secure storage for old sensitive information. Files relating to multi-million dollar projects are left on old group fileshares. These files are often archived to other unsecured fileserver once they are deamed to be old.
4) Sensitive files left on old harddrives. Again very common. The wipe over several times policy is not monitored and audited. There is always more important work to do...
I think that rats may be a bad analogy. I had pet rats, and they were consumed with their personnal security at all times!
Richard.
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