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10. Talking to the Users

Raymond Pompon

(1)Seattle, Washington, USA

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

—Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

Despite their great importance to the organization, users are best known to security people for just one thing: trouble. Users download malware along with their questionably funny cat videos. Users hate to patch their software. Users click links in e-mail. Users choose passwords based on the name of their dog. Users click through security warnings so they can get their ...

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