Who Wants To Be A Weakest Link?

This paper emphasizes the need to convey good security practices throughout an organization, because the 'weakest link' can be located anywhere along a company's 'chain.' Possible weak links are discussed and an attempt is made to explain the need for preemptive education via 'what-ifs.' An assumption is made that employees are interested in keeping their jobs. The main 'what-if' has to do with the loss (or downgrade) of positions held by the company's security weakest links. Another 'what if' involves the possible loss of the all-important dollar. It can unfortunately be concluded that no matter how hard security experts within a company try they cannot fix all the weak links in a chain but continued multi-directed efforts must be maintained to strengthen them as much as possible.