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The importance of periodic security assessments
You wouldn’t want to fly on a plane that hasn’t had its regular safety inspection. Or take a road trip without checking your oil and tire inflation. Or miss an annual trip to the doctor — would you? Similarly, periodically assessing your IT security is an important part of your organization’s preventive maintenance plan.

Security is mostly an invisible attribute. We tend to set it up and then forget about it. But each of us has our blind spots, causing us to miss things. Our infrastructure changes over time, possibly opening it up to new vulnerabilities. And new methods of attack are invented daily, so what was secure yesterday may not be secure today.

Just as every car comes with a list of scheduled maintenance items, your IT organization should have a list of security features to audit on a periodic basis. You can do many of them yourself, but there’s no substitute for having an independent expert occasionally check for your blind spots.

Meet Chris McDermott
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Schwag Brag Q208
This quarter's schwag brag features Don Wrege, an interactive media production manager by day and parody songwriter by night, and his Applied Trust cooler bag.

Schwag Brag Contest Reminder
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