ABSTRACT
Let us clarify something right from the beginning. Technology alone is not going to secure your network. A trip to your local networking superstore will not necessarily make your network secure, even if you have to back up the minivan to take everything back to the office. The problem is that underlying all security technologies is a single inconsistency that tends to skew all of our hard work and planning — people. That is correct — you, I, and that guy or gal down the hall who is constantly dumping his or her trash in your trash bin. People screw things up. Of course, that is also part of our charm; but people will misconfigure firewalls, tell friends their passwords, make a programming error that causes a server to crash when unexpected input is entered; and odds are that it was another person who typed in the unexpected input in the first place!
