It’s for your own good - the art of risk communication

Businesses will always want to implement processes or policies that make their jobs easier and it's the IT security officer's job to protect them from themselves but, says Oscar Arean, cloud computing has added an extra layer of complexity that businesses now have to deal with.

"The vast majority of security breaches are unintentional rather than malicious. They're usually caused by employees just looking for the quickest and easiest way to do their job. A big part of managing security risk in the cloud is communication. If the security department are the disciplinarians who exist to tell off users for keeping their passwords on Post-Its, security is never going to be strong. Users need to know why keeping passwords on Post-Its is a bad idea..."

Read the full article on The Stack here.

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