InfoWorld - Security Adviser: The 19 most maddening security questions

Users and organizations alike continue to make the same mistakes and use the same unreliable technologies and practices

By Roger A. Grimes
MARCH 06, 2012

I've been immersed in IT security for more than two decades, and I've learned a lot along the way. Yet for all the knowledge I've soaked up, several questions still baffle me. Some of them pertain to end-users who seem to fall for the same sorts of scams year after year. Others, though, relate to security technologies and practices that organizations continually embrace, though they don't work as well as they should -- if at all.

The following is just a short of list the questions that nag me day to day as I'm hunkered down in the IT security trenches.

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