Many of the mistakes that people make are simple, avoidable ones that can lead to serious intrusions and major network compromises. Mike Lloyd, chief scientist at Red Seal Systems, said in a talk at BSides San Francisco Monday on how easily common common networking and security errors can turn into large incidents. Even the smartest networking teams make errors and that those mistakes sometimes go unnoticed for years, even through professional audits and network redesigns. Maintaining network defenses by hand is difficult, Lloyd said.
Source: https://threatpost.com/common-security-mistakes-can-lead-major-compromises-021411/74936/