is security over or underated.
Hi.
this is in responce to the new article just posted.
As I have always said, it depends.
Ever heard of the saying, that if you eat to much of a good thing…
Security itself is not secure.
Its secure at the current time but later on it can be broken.
How secure is secure?
Ok so you want a serious model of wat security should be.
Locks on all the doors, secured computers and everything.
Ok what if you forget your keys?
Or they get stolen, or well if something really bad happens you can’t control and the datafile for all the passwords and records is now a useless piece of crap, say you have a fire and most everything is destroyed.
As supposed to having everything in plain site of everyone that notices.
Find a medium ground.
My ground is having the week windows firewall on, the router firewall on, an antivirus scanner, an antispyware scanner and an antispyware protecter.
The scanners and virus system are sit at minimum values so they don’t introod on my use or performance.
passwords, internet and other info including banking info are stored in text files on a flash drive which is always by the desk with another used for actual data, this stuff is backed on 2 hard drives and a few cds for backup.
Is it secure?
No not really, but then is anything secure.
I am secure from casual hackers well most of them.
I check mails for spam or unusual things and remove attachments I don’t know about.
I can scan files if I so choose and often do.
my isp has spam and virus protection.
Even so I still get a load of spam.
about 2-5 a day which over all is not much in the scheme of things.
I do clean my cache out every few months.
I concider this secure, and believe me i have tried things.
Also every payed thing ie banks, the net, etc has its own password, however just about everything else is locked to a standard username andpassword.
is that secure?
No not in the scheme of things but its as secure as I need.
I have had issues where to much security had me having to manage the stuff on systems because of stuff that wouldn’t run because of it, I’ve even had the situation where windows itself was locked on 3 systems and actual lagit things were bard.
Ofcause its a different story if someone is managing security for you.
In that case you can be as secure as you like, you can do whatever you want, even install norton on a system.
if someone else manages it then well you don’t need to worry, this is my view and my view only.
Do I want to be more secure than I am now?
Yeah I do, if only I didn’t get headakes, ie lagit programs and mail lost, corruption to things and bugs requiring reformats of everything.
A nice and accessible way to manage things.
a way to remotely do things and a way to manage passwords so that if anything happened there was a way to fix it.
maybe have backup files.
But as it stands I have no desire to go back to what I was doing 5 years ago.
Half my time was spent maintaining security software as well as user work with it.
the rest of the time was split up on trying to use what I had and reformatting the systems because of extra preasure put on em by security software and other things.
Am I secure?
No but I am confortable.
Most security is comman sence.
If you don’t open unknown attachments and are carefull then thats most of the issues.
A spyware blocker and scanner should be installed as well as some sort of cookie viewer/killer.
you also should have a good antivirus scanner, this doesn’t neccessarily have to have residant protection.
if you have broadband you should use the hardware router that can keep most things out.
if not don’t worry, if you are hacked your ip changes all the time when you dial.
not a big issue is it?
Ofcause its not as clear cut as that, there are dumbasses among us and sadely most of us are in one way or another, even I am not imune from this.
There are still some things not known about security always will be.
Do you need a firewall software?
If you want to moniter things and like that by all means.
Do you want a suite of things.
only if you are going to use everything in that.
How secure is secure?
if you set all your security software on medium protection then you should be ok.
this includes getting the latest sun java instead of ms java although you will still need that for some things.