Information Security – A different Perspective
Khalid Kamran
CEO of an inbound call center providing services to UK cab and private hire companies
?In this article, I am going to discuss the most hyped or talked about (we can say it!) business issue that is Information Security. We will discuss it in quite normal way with no technical stuff and IS domains covered by CISSP or ISO 27001. Our approach is the people, “Weakest most link in security chain”.
“Quote“: A domain for the nerds.” That is how the Internet used to be viewed back in the early 1990s, until all the rest of us began to use and depend on it. But this quote is from a White House official earlier this year describing how cyber security is too often viewed today. And therein lies the problem, and the needed solution. UNQUOTE”
From professional point of view, what are common misconceptions about Information Security? Please used comments to list yours!
How the information security is breached and why information leakage occurs/occurred. Please use comments to list yours!
Here are some misconceptions and mistakes that a common man has (almost all business users fall in this category):
Common man’s misconception about Information (Almost all level of staff):
1. This is a technology problem
2. Information is what is stored in electronic devices.
3. Why I need to give password each time.
4. Password complexity issues (from top to bottom level)
5. Keeping data backups without Encryption.
6. Absence of policies ….
7. Single copy of data storage ….
8. Everyone has access to everything …. No Data Access Control.
9. Only big companies and people are targeted.
10. Antivirus is considered as best protection.
11. No awareness about safe Cyber practices and Cyber crime tactics..
12. Opening each and every email even coming from unknown sender. Clicking the URL provided in the emails.
13. It will not happen to me. And if happens at all …
14. What hackers will do with the information stored in my device?
15. Running WiFi with minimum security (With WPA2).
Your comments and feedback will help to spread the knowledge to few others. It will also help me enhance my knowledge as well.