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At a roundtable discussion, security pros from Microsoft, Symantec, McAfee, and other companies weighed the role of users, vendors, and online businesses in securing the Internet.
At a June 28 roundtable discussion organized by the National Cyber Security Alliance, security experts from Lockheed Martin, McAfee, Microsoft and other companies discussed the balance between user and corporate accountability in the digital world. Roland Cloutier, chief security officer at business outsourcing solution provider ADP, said a lack of consumer education has led to more unsecure machines, and improving the situation will require a greater understanding by users of the role they need to play.
Many users have a value system online that stresses openness and information sharing, opined Dave Marcus, security research and communications manager for McAfee Avert Labs. However, those same users are often not aware of the interconnectivity of Web 2.0 technologies and websites, and just how much their data is shared, he said.
Compounding this, many users don’t stay up-to-date with browsers, applications and operating systems, noted Andrew Cushman, senior director of Trustworthy Computing at Microsoft. Attackers are typically lazy, he said, and there’s enough “low hanging fruit” in the form of unpatched or older systems that hackers don’t need to target the more secure versions.
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