Ending our Top-Ten is the most often overlooked hole in your security - people like you

1. Ignoring the human element of security
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The second worst security mistake - thinking about it last

2. Viewing security as an add-on
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The third worst security mistake - not defining what period of time temporary is

3. Temporary changes that turn out to be permanent
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Counting our way down the top five security mistakes, we challenge retail therapy

4. Relying upon security products or following the latest vendor-led trends.
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Entering our top five, how trustworthy is your trusted third-party?

5. Assuming that trusted partners aren’t a threat
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Counting down the chart, we encounter a common mistake in Incident Response scenarios.

6. Over reacting to an incident
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A common security mistake is our next subject. In making changes for security systems, most of the time, only the expected outcome is tested - not the unexpected outcome.

7. Not testing your changes
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The next our series of top 10 security mistakes - something we see all too often, and usually with significant consequences:

8. Thinking hackers don’t exploit test systems
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Number 9 in our list of top 10 security mistakes is…

9. Believing security is only about confidentiality

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August seems to be the month for security tips, so we thought we should publish some. There are certainly more than ten security mistakes to be made - and over the years we’ve seen plenty of people making them, so the hardest part of this list was narrowing it down to just ten. We considered using hexidecimal for our top “10″, but even squeezing in an extra six wouldn’t do enough to make the selection process easier. So after a harrowing process of elimination, we have… straight in at number 10…
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