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<blockquote data-quote="Practical Response" data-source="post: 1080853" data-attributes="member: 109138"><p>Home users are not lucrative enough to draw the dire of a direct hacking attack on their network. Hackers are not going to and the key word here is "risk" for a single home users possible "$9.80" in their bank account and coupons stuck on the fridge. Unless a user directly upsets a criminal organization to the point of a direct attack, its doubtful anyone of the average users here will ever see one. </p><p></p><p></p><p>Actually the latter part of users you describe are exactly what I was referring too, the ones that use advanced products with manually rule adjustment and creation, most of them have no idea how to use the applications, they follow guides with no true understanding, and have a false sense of security because of, not realizing that one misconfiguration will leave them more vulnerable then they were to begin with.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Bigger organizations actually have the funding to keep their infrastructure current and even state of the art. Whether or not they dedicate the funding towards this and their IT department is another story, most will try to get by with what they can, diverting funds elsewhere. This and the fact that the bigger the more lucrative of a target and worth the "risk" as stated earlier it would be to find one of many vulnerabilities in everything to exploit. This combined with "phishing" result in many issues for average users, although one can not do much about the former, with good habits they certainly can do something about the latter. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I couldn't agree more with your assessment, although you left out one particular type here and that's the knowledgeable experts/pretenders that are self-serving, only care about what they can gain from it all, and will misguide others in those pursuits. Of course that could be labeled under ignorant I suppose. </p><p></p><p>As of right now though as I type this, there are 34 members signed in and 530 guest reading, so hopefully this topic reaches some home users that could benefit from advice of using good habits.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Practical Response, post: 1080853, member: 109138"] Home users are not lucrative enough to draw the dire of a direct hacking attack on their network. Hackers are not going to and the key word here is "risk" for a single home users possible "$9.80" in their bank account and coupons stuck on the fridge. Unless a user directly upsets a criminal organization to the point of a direct attack, its doubtful anyone of the average users here will ever see one. Actually the latter part of users you describe are exactly what I was referring too, the ones that use advanced products with manually rule adjustment and creation, most of them have no idea how to use the applications, they follow guides with no true understanding, and have a false sense of security because of, not realizing that one misconfiguration will leave them more vulnerable then they were to begin with. Bigger organizations actually have the funding to keep their infrastructure current and even state of the art. Whether or not they dedicate the funding towards this and their IT department is another story, most will try to get by with what they can, diverting funds elsewhere. This and the fact that the bigger the more lucrative of a target and worth the "risk" as stated earlier it would be to find one of many vulnerabilities in everything to exploit. This combined with "phishing" result in many issues for average users, although one can not do much about the former, with good habits they certainly can do something about the latter. I couldn't agree more with your assessment, although you left out one particular type here and that's the knowledgeable experts/pretenders that are self-serving, only care about what they can gain from it all, and will misguide others in those pursuits. Of course that could be labeled under ignorant I suppose. As of right now though as I type this, there are 34 members signed in and 530 guest reading, so hopefully this topic reaches some home users that could benefit from advice of using good habits. [/QUOTE]
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