The other day I was in my local Supermarket. After shopping for what I needed I headed for the Cash point. Upon arrival this greeted me and got me thinking. I like to think of this as “What’s the point” security. Companied go to great lengths to ensure staff and customers feel safe and secure. This is a perfect example of what happens when procedures are ignored or taken for granted.

The result here shows a clear venerability which could be exploited. Security procedures are put in place to ensure three things, Confidentiality, of trade secrets, data, plans etc. Integrity of information, i.e. ensuring that it has not been tampered with and is securely stored and finally to ensure that the thing being protected remains available. This is a concept known as the CIA triad and is the foundation of the way security should be implemented and is often lesson one in any book.

The problem with the picture is that it demonstrates that we are all human and human’s as you know make mistakes. We also have an in built socialisation mechanism which makes us fundamentally trust people. Now of course I am not saying that this is a bad thing in fact it’s what separates us from “them”.

Hopefully after looking at this picture you can take the small amount of knowledge learned here and re-evaluate the way you do things thus reducing potential RISK! Something to think about eh?