Ask a security expert, and they will always identify your biggest security problem as the component on the opposite side of the keyboard from the monitor. Yep, people cause far more security problems than computers.
Untangle makes a free (as in you don’t pay a penny) network security gateway. You can hear their Carly Adams, their West Coast sales manager, tell about their product in a video interview I did with her last fall.
To our topic today, the Untangle company blog posted a good introductory article to the security problems caused by employees. “Read Five Ways Your Best Employees Can Compromise Your Network” and then share that information with co-workers. And you know at least a couple of co-workers who really need to read this story.