Comments on: How safe is your IT security? http://www.axon-it.com/2009/04/21/how-safe-is-your-it-security/ Microsoft Technology, IT Problems And Solutions, Infrastructure Design Tue, 06 Dec 2011 15:30:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Tal Golan http://www.axon-it.com/2009/04/21/how-safe-is-your-it-security/comment-page-1/#comment-516 Tal Golan Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:36:55 +0000 http://www.axon-it.com/?p=385#comment-516 Graham’s recommendations are simple and straight forward but often overlooked – and unfortunately, the risks to overlooking are real. RSA USA, a four day conference dedicated to the topic of security is currently being held in San Francisco and will draw over 17,000 people (its difficult to imagine a group so large gathering yearly to discuss a topic that didn’t carry any significance). I couldn’t agree more with the spam component of this discussion, but would counter that e-mail users as well as IT departments need to demand more from their current solutions and would even go a step further as to say that it is possible to achieve the elusive “100%” figure, when IT departments adapt the right approach to the problem. Facebook and LinkedIn have the problem figured out – its time to allow users to build their own e-mail network as opposed to letting a spam filter decide who e-mail users can communicate with. This opt-in model, when applied to e-mail accomplishes exactly what Graham is discussing here – a simple IT solution that will provide e-mail users with unparalleled security and control. Our users love our product because it does just that, spam elimination using the opt-in model. Spam filtering has notoriously lengthy setup time and users still are required to check the "junk mail box." Graham’s recommendations are simple and straight forward but often overlooked – and unfortunately, the risks to overlooking are real. RSA USA, a four day conference dedicated to the topic of security is currently being held in San Francisco and will draw over 17,000 people (its difficult to imagine a group so large gathering yearly to discuss a topic that didn’t carry any significance).

I couldn’t agree more with the spam component of this discussion, but would counter that e-mail users as well as IT departments need to demand more from their current solutions and would even go a step further as to say that it is possible to achieve the elusive “100%” figure, when IT departments adapt the right approach to the problem. Facebook and LinkedIn have the problem figured out – its time to allow users to build their own e-mail network as opposed to letting a spam filter decide who e-mail users can communicate with.

This opt-in model, when applied to e-mail accomplishes exactly what Graham is discussing here – a simple IT solution that will provide e-mail users with unparalleled security and control. Our users love our product because it does just that, spam elimination using the opt-in model. Spam filtering has notoriously lengthy setup time and users still are required to check the “junk mail box.”

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