What is the best way to identify, evaluate and address the most critical threats to your business?

[Mindthoughts]

The vulnerability and threat landscape is constantly changing with new exploits, malwares and patches introduced every day. What is the best way to identify, evaluate and address the most critical threats to your business?

 

[RMerlin]

Too often overlooked: the most common failure point are the users themselves. People clicking on unsafe Email attachments, leaving passwords on Post-It, visiting links from their Facebook wall on their office computers, etc... Educating and training the employees should be the first thing to do.

 

[Rossmon]

Too often overlooked: the most common failure point are the users themselves. People clicking on unsafe Email attachments, leaving passwords on Post-It, visiting links from their Facebook wall on their office computers, etc... Educating and training the employees should be the first thing to do.

I definitely agree. Many top A/V consultants have reported that the main emphasis of the bad guys is tricking people. It's a lot easier than creating new malware code to attack defensive systems!