The stuff of IT Pro nightmares
By Davey Winder in Editorial
Posted in Data Protection, Blog, Security on
I couldn’t help but giggle at a recent survey which revealed the stuff of IT Pro nightmares. For me there is nothing worse than that call from the mother-in-law who needs help getting her Android phone talking to Outlook Express or some distant relative who understands I know a bit about wireless networking.
Webroot discovered, however, that of the 300 IT security professionals that it questioned about email management, compliance, archiving, encryption, spam, viruses, Web filtering and Web-based malware attacks, most of them were kept awake at night by the thought of email threat protection which was followed by data security and confidentiality issues and finally web threat protection practise.
Crikey, take a chill pill chaps.
Other findings from this survey were that IT Pros are worried about not having enough money to throw at security problems courtesy of the recession (meh) and the high cost of data breaches (meh) which some 23 percent of them said their companies had experienced (meh again).
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to grab some sleep before my sisters friend comes round expecting me to turn her netbook into a dual-booting delight…
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Loading ...Comment by Ian Sime - July 14, 2009 on 11:12 am
Ah, like my wife’s friend who got in touch recently to ask me if I could connect her PC up wirelessly.
That would be the PC that ‘already has wirelss’ (aka Bluetooth !) trying to connect to the wireless router that she doesn’t have.
Ho hum…
Comment by - July 14, 2009 on 11:59 am
A friend who shall remain nameless called me in a mad panic as her computer was working OK but not producing any sound at all. My magic powers worked when I said “do you see the mute button…”
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Comment by Matt - July 14, 2009 on 12:02 pm
Ironically, I just had my mother on the phone, as she’s just got a new PC. She hasn’t turned it on yet…plugging it into the wall seems to be technical enough at the moment. Ah well, I think I can guess how my evening is going to go….
Comment by - July 14, 2009 on 12:14 pm
My M-i-L has just entered a new mobile phone contract after going into an Orange Shop for a basic phone for texting and (mainly) receiving calls. She came out with an HTC Touch 3G, and when she started using declared ‘I won’t use all that Internet stuff’ which makes me wonder why she bought a smartphone in the first place. Meh
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