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Who Wants To Be A Weakest Link?
- Abstract
- This paper emphasizes the need to convey good security practices throughout an organization, because the "weakest link" can be located anywhere along a company's "chain." Possible weak links are discussed and an attempt is made to explain the need for preemptive education via "what-ifs." An assumption is made that employees are interested in keeping their jobs. The main "what-if" has to do with the loss (or downgrade) of positions held by the company's security weakest links. Another "what if" involves the possible loss of the all-important dollar. It can, unfortunately, be concluded that no matter how hard security experts within a company try, they cannot fix all the weak links in a chain, but continued multi-directed efforts must be maintained to strengthen them as much as possible.