Fraidy Cat Marketing
June 8th, 2006Fraidy Cat Marketing - Forbes.com
Some 70% of security breaches are caused by human error, says a March 2006 survey by the Computing Technology Industry Association. Brian Boetig, a supervisory special agent with the FBI’s computer crime unit in San Jose, Calif., describes the typical breach: “When you fire an employee and don’t change their password, they can get into the system and get information to a competitor.” No technical solution there. Says Boetig: “There are people creating problems so they can fix them. But that’s marketing for you.”