Less than one third of the 120 companies surveyed were satisfied that their network was secure enough against hacker or virus attacks. However, according to Philip Harragan, European managing director of Network Associates, the solution is not more technology, but better training of staff. Technology is all well and good, but it is humans who design technology and humans who run technology. Humans get tired, humans get lazy, humans make mistakes. That's life, and mistakes make life interesting.
Mistakes can lead to new inventions, new technology.
The internet to me often seems like a Trojan Horse. It has been sold as this wonderful place where costs are slashed, where so much is automated and everyone makes lots of money really quickly. But as the internet becomes embedded in the organisation and in society, it will introduce a whole new range of hidden costs and job functions. The network is open and thus open to attack form viruses and hackers. All the technology in the world won't solve that problem, if staff are not trained and vigilant.