Chapter 11 Automated Tools
Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today’s jobs with yesterday’s tools.
Marshall McLuhan
In this chapter, you will learn to recognize the value and limitations of automated information assurance tools. This chapter discusses the automated tools that can be used to protect your information, and the tools that attackers use to attempt to access and compromise your automated information.*
A variety of weaknesses can leave information vulnerable to compromise. For example, information is vulnerable when (1) inexperienced or untrained users accidentally violate good security practices by, for example, inadvertently publicizing their passwords, (2) weak passwords are chosen which can be ...
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