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Story: Old ways of thinking a barrier to security

Posted by: Ro (Tuesday 13 February 2007, 1:35 PM)

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Awareness and education with regards to security is without doubt the most important weapon against threats. However one cannot ignore the strengths private security firms have compared to public bodies and non security related organizations. Yes, the security sector is guilty of hyping security threats and creating an unnecessary climate of fear. However these organizations are better suited to tackle the continually changing environment of IT security and can deliver innovation where other organizations cannot. Instead of looking at the security sector as proof of "sign of failure", perhaps we should create more incentive for this sector to have a proactive approach to their practices. One cannot expect sectors whose core business isn't security to be able to adapt and change to this dynamic and fast paced security environment. Awareness, standards and best practice should stand firmly central in everyone’s security arsenal, this combined with innovative AV and monitoring software, created by a competitive security sector, we stand a better chance of delivering the needed model of "a threat is no threat if it can do no damage when it arrives".

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