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Fleury: Shoring Up Internal Defenses

CSO Compass Award winner Lynda Fleury, CISO with insurance company Unum, thinks companies should look inward to strengthen information security's weakest link

By Joan Goodchild, Senior Editor

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Back to the issue of staff education. Have you worked with employees to educate them about potential network threats?
We have a lot of experience on our team. There is probably collectively 40-50 years of total network experience. What we are doing now is taking what we are learning from the attacks we see, the threats we see, and turning it into knowledge. We are educating our IT professionals, especially our developers who are out there surfing the web looking for code samples. The idea is to be able to say 'Hey, here is what happens when you download something from certain sites. Here is a safe way to search for things you are searching for in your daily job.'

Our efforts are really focusing on digging deeper and getting beyond the typical awareness training. Now we are getting it into the hands of the end user.

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