Re: [Full-disclosure] Your neighbor's security is critical to your security

[Simon Smith <simon@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Are you suggesting that my house is a mess?

Babak Pasdar wrote:
> Here is a recent blog entry on why your neighbor's security is important
> to your organization's security.
>
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> When I was a child, my mother would share with me a proverb about a
> woman who lived in a large village. This woman was, using today's terms,
> a clean freak. She would clean her house day and night, inside and out,
> but it still would not be clean. So she went to the village elder and
> asked what she could do so that her house would finally be clean.
>
> The elder responded, if you want your house to be clean, you should talk
> to your neighbors and make sure their homes are clean. This was
> surprising to the woman who asked why her neighbor's cleanliness would
> affect her?
>
> The elder shared that if the area around her house is clean then there
> will be less dirt that can find it's way into her house.
>
> The same holds true with technology security. So many organizations are
> extremely engaged in making their security the best it can be. Despite
> any efforts, what would happen if only 2% of the Internet decided to
> Ping your site or systems at the same time. Regardless of the capacity
> you boast and the big boxes in your environment, you would go down for
> that moment. 
>
> Read the rest here...
> http://dsb.igxglobal.com/plugins/content/content.php?content.39
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>
> Babak Pasdar
> Founder / Chief Technology & Information Security Officer
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        Adriel T. Desautels
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