Think Like a Secret Agent When it Comes to Security
Submitted by Tim Roper on Monday, August 29, 2011
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Lifehacker published over the weekend a great list of security tips drawing from the art of spycraft. In the world of IT security, an all-out arms race exists between hackers and IT pros. Perhaps you remember MAD Magazine's Spy vs. Spy cartoons, where the name of the game is staying one step ahead of your opponent (your opponent in this case being identity theives and other cybercrooks). Read more about it here.
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"For our [clinical research facility], it was better to have a preventive plan in place so that if something did break, we would be ahead of it, and it wouldn’t break instead of waiting for something to happen and then fix it. So, now CMIT is monitoring everything, and we haven’t had any issues so they can catch the problem before it even happens.
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