Single Most Important Cybersecurity Vulnerability
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With the growing usage of the Internet, the expansion of global communication, the office in its traditional sense is fading away. In order for corporations, whether small or large to be profitable in this competitive market, the walls of their offices have had to expand beyond the four walls located at their physical business address. In order to conduct business effectively nowadays, it has become necessary to have internal private business and government networks connecting to other corporate and government networks; as such, the use of portable devices has significantly increased and private corporate information travels more and more. While this is extremely convenient, and allows conducting business at unconventional hours and locations, it is simultaneously risky and requires organizations to proactively secure their data from being compromised. Internet access is available from the privacy of our homes, but also in an increasing number of public places: libraries, fast food restaurants, cafés, and department stores. With the growing cyberworld has come a multiplication of cyber-attacks, where both amateurs and dedicated hackers constantly try penetrating corporate networks. It has become a very challenging objective for IT managers and IT professionals to keep information secured while travelling through the internet. Additionally, one of main concerns when it comes to securing networks is the legitimate users of that same network. Vacca states that “users maybe your company’s lifeblood, but they are simultaneously your greatest and most necessary asset, and you weakest link” (p.63); indeed, IT managers face the daunting task of balancing network security and meeting the needs of internal users. This observation brings to the