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Employees of companies and organisations need educating on IT security issues and best practices, according to one leading security firm, which says a 'staggering' number of IT professionals recently surveyed do not trust their end users to make sound IT security decisions.
According to a worldwide survey of employee usage behaviour conducted by global security company, Sophos, 96 percent of respondents expressed lack of trust in end users, with 48 percent saying they had to fix  security issues caused by end user negligence at least once a week.

Sophos, which says it has developed a new, free training tool on security for IT professionals, says the survey underscores the impact that a lack of understanding of security policies and best practices'”in every department and at all levels of an organisation'”can have on an IT infrastructure.
 
Sophos also found that 26 percent of respondents to its survey said that senior management had committed the worst IT security offences, while 19 percent admitted that IT, itself, committed the worst IT security offences.

As part of its security training program, Sophos has published a free IT security Dos and Dont's kit with some useful advice, including:

'¢         Launch guide with quick tips for IT professionals to begin an educational program
'¢         IT Security DOs and DON'Ts posters and handbook for end users with top 10 tips
'¢         Bite-sized reminder email templates
'¢         Password DOs and DON'Ts 1-pager to help end users create strong passwords
'¢         PowerPoint presentation for IT professionals to use for trainings, etc.

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Peter Dinham is a co-founder of iTWire and a 35-year veteran journalist and corporate communications consultant. He has worked as a journalist in all forms of media – newspapers/magazines, radio, television, press agency and now, online – including with the Canberra Times, The Examiner (Tasmania), the ABC and AAP-Reuters. As a freelance journalist he also had articles published in Australian and overseas magazines. He worked in the corporate communications/public relations sector, in-house with an airline, and as a senior executive in Australia of the world’s largest communications consultancy, Burson-Marsteller. He also ran his own communications consultancy and was a co-founder in Australia of the global photographic agency, the Image Bank (now Getty Images).

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