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10/01/2001 Archived Entry: "1-October-2001 -- Information Technology -- Essential But Vulnerable: How Prepared Are We for Attacks?"

Information Technology -- Essential But Vulnerable: How Prepared Are We for Attacks? (Computer World) -- "Vendors can help reduce the impact of security problems by shipping products with "out of the box" configurations that enable security options rather than require the user to enable them. The user can change these "default" configurations if desired, but would have the benefit of starting from a secure base." (Comments: How much do security and usability overlap? Are security tools easy to use? In my experience, the usability problems associated with security systems have been quite serious. What do you think?)

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