I wouldn’t have taken it if I hadn’t been told it is mandatory. What a waste of time for a person who already takes security seriously. I feel like a child who has been told to sit in the corner and listen even if I already know everything today’s lesson is going to cover.
So when taking the quit at the end of the 190 slide deck which I skipped through, I run across a question regarding “a secure network” I answered incorrectly. I felt the need to email the corporate security people this response:
Question 3 from the Final Exam
The more secure a network is, the
harder it is to use.
harder it is to use.
The
correct answer is false. You want me to select true to continue. I just wanted
to voice my objection to this. This is not true. In fact, do we even ever
“use” networks? We use applications that use networks. Programmers writing the
application may use the network as means for applications to communicate, but as
end users we don’t directly use the network. Furthermore, a more secure network
protects me from stupid things like worms and certain viruses. This in turn
makes my computer easier to use because I don’t get these worms and certain
viruses. So in many ways a secure network is more easy to use than an insecure
network.
correct answer is false. You want me to select true to continue. I just wanted
to voice my objection to this. This is not true. In fact, do we even ever
“use” networks? We use applications that use networks. Programmers writing the
application may use the network as means for applications to communicate, but as
end users we don’t directly use the network. Furthermore, a more secure network
protects me from stupid things like worms and certain viruses. This in turn
makes my computer easier to use because I don’t get these worms and certain
viruses. So in many ways a secure network is more easy to use than an insecure
network.
Yes, I know I am a bit of a prick at times 🙂
you’re fired Jay.
yeah, same thing happened to me during our mandatory computer security awareness training. i answered one of them correctly, but the stupid slide said “you are incorrect” in big red letters. so i just put my brain in standby for a few minutes and answered the rest of the questions as a dummy. big surprise, i got the rest of them correct. also, now i am a HUMAN FIREWALL!!! that sounds like a member of the fantastic four or something… \m/