Cybersecurity is such an everpresent concern that one would think every organization would be diligently patching every hole. The reality is much different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I was recently accompanying a CISO at one of our country’s critical infrastructure providers. In that short half-hour walk, I could not help but to point out all the simple things that we came across.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
First, I walked into the facility and passed the guard at the front desk. I was not made to sign in; I simply got into the elevator with others who were badged employees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While on the elevator, I overheard a young woman talking on her cell phone about the company’s performance metrics. I exited the elevator and walked through the sliding glass doors as other badged employees were exiting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I also noticed that there was the back door that was propped open by a box, and the door to the main telecommunications room had its door open as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Moving on, there were all the documents left on the multi-function printer\/copiers. As we made it down the hallway on the executive floor, there was a hefty stack of documents sitting beside the shredder and no one was around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Then there was the unsecured laptop sitting on the desk logged on in a cubicle just inside one of the open doors with no one around. Also on that desk was a USB thumbdrive with a conference logo on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
All of these things are security risks. Perhaps it is time to take a step back away from the computer monitor, take a walk and look at the simple things!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A lax security guard, an elevator chatterbox and a neglected shredder add up to major security holes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":25506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_acf":"","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":130,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_smg_distribution_targets":[]},"categories":[16,130,24,58],"tags":[],"coauthors":[858,888],"class_list":["post-25106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-it-networks","category-net-defense-blogs","category-opinion","category-the-compass"],"acf":{"subheadline":"","legacy_arc_id":"Q3WFT75ZVJBEXD7H2DQPGG35IU","arc_canonical_url":"\/opinion\/the-compass\/net-defense-blogs\/2015\/06\/15\/coleman-don-t-overlook-the-simple-things-in-cybersecurity\/","remove_feature_photo":false,"is_sponsored":false,"subtype":"","redirect_url":"","disable_inline_ads":false,"native_logo_pretext":"Presented By:"},"yoast_head":"\n