On 07/28/2016 04:47 PM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
How about the damage done once the malware is on the network and what it's doing. And perhaps why a topic on why it's important for home users to secure even their little device like printers and router.
That's outside the scope of the story. Focus is on corporate (not home) user awareness training.
Home users carry that attitude to their office, also a lot of people now work from home. As a side note, a decade ago a place I worked at had a pretty new corporate printer added to our lab (we had no choice). Shortly after it was installed we get a message from Corp. Sec that our lab needs to be isolated from the corporate network. We find out the printer had a windows server on it. To make matters worse we find out it had a virus and no virus protection. Things got worse when we found out our test equipment also had Windows and the company wouldn't let us put any virus protection on it. Purchasing took care of that issue with a cancellation of our next order. The virus protection was added within a week. The thing that got us was no one told us about the Windows OS being used. -- Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry ncherry@linuxha.com http://www.linuxha.com/ Main site http://linuxha.blogspot.com/ My HA Blog Author of: Linux Smart Homes For Dummies