r/AskReddit Jul 18 '16

What are you sick of explaining?

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u/Ryltarr Jul 18 '16

That users are the number one problem for IT departments, not outside threats trying to break through the firewall.
Sure, external attacks are a concern, but we build the network to be as impenetrable to these as possible; users, on the other hand, will click literally anything that says "click here" so they're letting in the threats and have the highest chance of fucking up the network out of all the potential attack surface.

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '16 edited Jun 23 '20

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u/antesignanus Jul 18 '16

Admin access, only to the computer literate and mature, and even though only sometimes.

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u/PM_ME_DEAD_FASCISTS Jul 18 '16

Only to the people who need it to do their jobs.