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[Tom Pohl]

You just need a bigger monitor. I had side-by-side kitten/paper action going until I saw a cute kitty I had to forward on to a co-worker and it was all kittens from there on!

Good paper Josh! It was an interesting read!

-Tom

On Jan 19, 2011, at 5:10 PM, kristau <kristau at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well, I was going to read your paper, but then I saw the link to
> kittenwar. 20 minutes later and I've yet to look at your paper.
> Thanks!
> 
> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Josh More
> <MoreJ at alliancetechnologies.net> wrote:
>> I completed my paper based on the survey I had sent out a few months back.
>> To put it very succinctly, I have long wondered why small businesses do not
>> suffer more security breaches than they do.  As a group, they tend to have
>> sloppy operations practices and poor to nonexistent controls.  While they
>> are a smaller and less-tempting target, that alone doesn't seem to explain
>> the lack of problems.  One thing that might is the tendency for people at
>> lower risk to compensate for that lower risk by taking larger personal
>> risks.  So I decided to study the variables of psychological control within
>> an information security context.  The conclusions were somewhat
>> surprising... but that may be due to the limited sample set.
>> 
>> If you are interested in Likert scales, psychology or academic analysis of
>> information security, the paper is available here:
>> http://www.sans.org/reading_room/whitepapers/awareness/measuring-psychological-variables-control-information-security_33594
>> .
>> 
>> If you like, you can just jump down to pages 26-28 and get my conclusions
>> 
>> If you don't care about any of that stuff, this site has kittens:
>> http://kittenwar.com/   ;)
>> 
>> 
>> 
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