Comments on: 5 Personal InfoSec Mistakes I’ve Made http://www.dlstrom.com/2009/04/24/personal-infosec-mistakes-ive-made/ ... putting information security within reach of everyone! Sun, 11 Dec 2011 08:43:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: d.strom, cissp, gsec, gsna http://www.dlstrom.com/2009/04/24/personal-infosec-mistakes-ive-made/comment-page-1/#comment-17 d.strom, cissp, gsec, gsna Sat, 25 Apr 2009 13:27:50 +0000 http://www.dlstrom.com/?p=175#comment-17 You are right, Becki. It is so tempting to bypass best practice in the interest of expediency. I'll send out a tweet to see what mistakes others have made in this area. You are right, Becki. It is so tempting to bypass best practice in the interest of expediency. I’ll send out a tweet to see what mistakes others have made in this area.

]]> By: Becki True http://www.dlstrom.com/2009/04/24/personal-infosec-mistakes-ive-made/comment-page-1/#comment-15 Becki True Sat, 25 Apr 2009 02:19:17 +0000 http://www.dlstrom.com/?p=175#comment-15 I agree with you Dan. We don't always apply best practices at home. I'd like to add a couple more to your list: 6. Use the same password for multiple accounts 7. Don't encrypt storage such as hard drives or USB drives 8. Using privileged accounts rather than unprivileged accounts. 9. Don't change passwords on a regular basis 10. Run Javascript, ActiveX, and other potentially harmful applications. I recommend NoScript to help in this area. I'm sure we can all add a couple of items to this list, and that would be a fun list to read. I agree with you Dan. We don’t always apply best practices at home. I’d like to add a couple more to your list:

6. Use the same password for multiple accounts
7. Don’t encrypt storage such as hard drives or USB drives
8. Using privileged accounts rather than unprivileged accounts.
9. Don’t change passwords on a regular basis
10. Run Javascript, ActiveX, and other potentially harmful applications. I recommend NoScript to help in this area.

I’m sure we can all add a couple of items to this list, and that would be a fun list to read.

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