Advanced Topologies, Inc. needs to look at its Human Resources department and how they train their new employees. Right now the threat will mostly come from Matthias because he has been working without the knowledge needed to look for security threats. Without the right training for your employees, you run the risk of being your own threat. To remove the risk that Matthias may bring to ATI, he should have been properly trained before starting. All administrators should have the information security training before working on ATI’s network. Alfonso should be aware of what security concern will affect ATI, but as the superior, he did not seem overly concerned about the security of the network. Ensuring that personnel have the right skills to administer your network is a plus for a superior. Alfonso should not have not allowed Matthias to work on the network, without first informing him of all of his responsibilities. Once the inside threat has been removed we can now move on to looking at other users. Network monitoring is just important as knowing how your network runs. With the right training, you will know what threats to be aware of.
Threats can be encounter by a network administrator. One can come from the administrator because even after training is complete, they still can make errors if they do not understand what they have learned. Human error is still a factor but from a different point of view. If an administrator had the training and his expectation was just to be an administrator and not deal with security, he may not be too concerned about the security aspect of the job. New administrators must clearly understand what position they are being hire for. Matthias did know he was going to have to take basic information security training; it was a surprise to him. Another thing that will affect a new employee is if the supervisor is not engaged in the training of the new employees. This also can be one of the