Most IT security tools are aimed at the purely technical safety and thereby let the people as a risk factor in mind. Safe Stack from New Zealand would like to change that.
The New Zealand security company Safe Stack developed a software that evaluates privileges and connections of employees in companies and checks with fake phishing messages, how well they immune to fraud are. “People are the path of least resistance, and on the other hand we have to do something,” said Safe Stack-CEO Laura Bell on the Black Hat security conference, such as Technology Review online in “A security scanner for human weakness” reported.
In fact, the classic IT security industry mainly concerned with testing instead of humans and software more secure. Although safety training is now in many large enterprises standard, but for Bell proves the constant transit of burglaries in IT systems that education simply does not work.
Your software called Ava provides with data from the IT systems a company as well as information from social media determine which access rights have each employee and how they communicate with one another – such information is gladly used by attackers. Next Ava sent then phishing messages like to examine how to deal with it the receiver. The software has been tested by authorities and companies in New Zealand, but is still under construction. A newly formed Council of Ethics Notice is to deal with the difficult issues that it raises
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