Employees are a Company's Biggest Security Risk

Hackers are continually evolving the ways they attack business computer networks.  While "brute force" attacks in which the hacker makes multiple attempts in quick succession to guess a user's password are still common, sophisticated hackers have moved toward more sinister methods of attack.  Imagine getting an email from your boss, addressed to you and your closest colleagues, describing a change to the project you are working on and asking you to open an email attachment for more details.  Only the email isn't from your boss, it's from a hacker who used such resources as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn to learn enough about you and your job to craft a legitimate-looking email.  Opening the email introduces a virus into the network that lets the hacker gain unchecked access.  This is just one of the ways hackers are circumventing traditional safeguards.  Here's an article from the Wall Street Journal that should be required reading for every employee in your business: What's a Company's Biggest Security Risk? You!.