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Story: Schneier on security's 'people problems'

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Posted by: Mike Wendy (Tuesday 2 May 2006, 4:19 PM)

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To some extent - though there's a strong undercurrent of law enforcement to the story - this confirms a study we've done for the past four years, which states that human error, not technology problems, is the main culprit in of cyber security lapses.

This is the release from our last iteration of the study:

http://comptia.org/about/pressroom/get_pr.aspx?prid=903

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