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'Simple awareness' can keep out online threats

A leading online security solutions provider has called upon organisations to educate their employees on "simple awareness", steps in order to keep out online threats.

According to Michael Scheidell the president of SECNAP Network Security Corporation, organisations need to adopt measures such as conducting an external penetration test with employees in mind.

According to the award-winning lifelong inventor, what is often missing from many companies' security programmes is simple awareness, especially at the end-user level.

"Almost any employee can accidentally allow a virus into the system," says Scheidell in a September/October issue of Hakin9 Magazine interview.

"Salespeople using wireless sites unwittingly open the door to hackers, and plugging into hotel or other remote networks can have the same inadvertent impact."

His views echo those raised by Malcolm Harkins, general manager of information risk at Intel this week who said that teaching employees the best online security practises is the "new perimeter" against cyber threats.

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