Why broad knowledge is important
Dec 25th, 2010 by Jesper Kråkhede
I recently finished a study at a client that has a lot of electrical engineers. It was very interesting how they always tried to solve all problems with the tools at hand, mainly electrical components and power switches.
The question was how to secure access to a workstation. Their solution was to cut the power to the keyboard and mouse when the desktop was not in use, still allowing the screen to be unlocked. My suggestion to lock the screen was viewed upon as unsafe as all computers could be hacked. After some arguments we put each others to a test. They should hack my solution and I their’s.
I won, but I had to admit that I cheated just a little bit. I activated speechrecognition on both computers. 😉
Just my way of showing that you have to take everything into account. That’s why you always should hire a team of security consultants. If they are any good they should have a methodology for working as a team and provide you with better results.