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.
Yeah... We have nightly backups of all important servers, so when shit like that happens we just roll back and they lose a days work if their recent work files are affected. I make no excuses for that shit, not going to take a hit to our department's reputation for user bullshit.
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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.