Does your company have a strategy for staving off attacks to your computer systems? Do you have the right tools in place to guard against potential threats? Take this quiz, written by the SANS Institute, to assess your preparedness.
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About the author
Kristy Westphal is a SANS Institute author and an information security officer at the Arizona Department of Economic Security. During her 12 years in IT, she has developed competencies in several flavors of Unix and Windows, as well as various aspects of information security and disaster recovery planning. She previously was a senior associate with the Risk and Advisory Services practice at KPMG and was information security officer at Pegasus Solutions. In this role, she conducted audits of IT security and vulnerability assessments on Unix, Linux and NT platforms, as well as network services.
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