LoverVamp has taken issue with Andy’s post about user education being the key to security. LV says:
I’m not sure I would say that user education is key and that without it we may as well put up open wifi. I think user education is very important, but it won’t solve IT security any more than education has solved drug use, teen pregnancy, or STDs.
While LV is going after Andy for a comment that was really tongue-in-cheek, I thought his analogy about drug use and sex education was appropriate. So as some are doing is sex education, I propose that we move towards abstinence in IT security education. If we just take everyone’s computer away, we have no more IT security problems! Instead of wearing the digital condoms created by firewalls, IDS /IPS, NAC, etc., we just rip the friggin’ plugs out of the wall and be done with it! That would really reduce everyone’s stress factor.
Vet
