You went to great lengths to install all the necessary technologies to prevent hacking attacks, such as expensive firewalls, antivirus software, antispam systems and intrusion detection/prevention tools in your company’s network. You have configured the most secure policies and tightened every device on your network. You are confident that hackers will never be able to gain access to your network with complex security system in place.
Your peer, Peter Smith who works at the same department disagrees with you. He says even the best network security technologies cannot prevent hackers gaining access to the network because of presence of “weakest link” in the security chain.
What is Peter Smith talking about?