Time for users to open their eyes

The biggest threat to most organizations’ security is the lack of awareness of their own employees, but training to correct this is still lacking, as Illena Armstrong reports

If some of this year's various industry studies are any measure of information security awareness among the corporate world's end-users, training programs seem anything but successful.

The oft-mentioned 2004 CSI/FBI Computer Crime and Security Survey shows that most of the 494 IT security practitioners questioned believe their companies fail to invest enough in security awareness training, even though they believe it is important.

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