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And the sad/funny thing is that said tool would probably do diddly squat if one employee falls for a social engineering/phishing attack.
by Bluecobra 3y ago
And the sad/funny thing is that said tool would probably do diddly squat if one employee falls for a social engineering/phishing attack.
- oefrha 3y agoOccasionally security products turn into malware delivery platforms as well, because they run very privileged, are sometimes more shoddily developed than what they’re protecting, and have fewer eyeballs on them than the vanilla operating system. Not to mention they may be another Crypto AG.
- jacquesm 3y ago> Occasionally Much more frequently than that if you lump 'anti virus software' in with security products.
- Prickle 3y agoAs someone who's company just suffered this exact issue, all I can say is yes. They gave me a laptop with 8gb of ram. The laptop runs invisible security software that nominally takes 6~6.8gb. We just got penetrated by two attackers in the last 40 days.
- formerly_proven 3y ago> We just got penetrated by two attackers in the last 40 days. * that you know of