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Assignment:

You provide a lecture to the working group regarding the importance of security education, awareness, and training due to the oft-quoted security maxim that users/humans are the weakest link in the security chain. While making users aware of security risks and training them how to protect company assets will reduce risk, it is important to put technical controls in place to protect the operating systems and applications that employees use every day.

Discuss the importance of "hardening" the PCS client workstations and servers. Make recommendations for operating system hardening options and describe how these are related to the concept of "system-specific policies" discussed earlier in the course.

One of the working group members blurts out that antivirus protection is a waste of computing resources and patching applications takes too much time.

Be sure to address these two concepts in your initial thread. Include at least one research reference and associated in-text citation. further, discuss the importance of software security.

After having the opportunity to complete the course, what would you change and why? What topic particularly caught your interest and what do you want to know more about? Last, but not least, if you could share with the next class one piece of advice about this class, what would it be? Please note that this pertains to the class, the materials, flow/organization, etc. Your comments may be shared with incoming students with no identifying information.