Do you believe that IT security in private enterprise is a national security issue? I do and would love to hear your thoughts. You might want to take a look at the Airport WiFi and Financial District wireless vulnerability studies that AirTight performed recently to see just how badly some organizations are following b est practices when it comes to wireless security.
It appears that in some quarters folks felt that the President did not tell us anything we did not know in his speech on Friday about cyber security.  I think we need to understand, however, that the key phrase there is “anything WE did not know.”  At times we who work in technology live in a bubble and assume that everyone understands what we understand.  But technology or cyber security is our business – it is not the core business of the financial institution, the hospital, the school, the utility etc. Read more…

Della Lowe Best practices, Wireless security cyber security, President Obama, security policy, wireless