SE Michigan IT security conference says watch your home computers

You gotta watch your home computers. That's the advice Gordon Mitchell told a couple of hundred IT professionals at the Secure World Detroit conference in Dearborn. It's at home where the biggest threats lie. What is the triple threat of a security breach? File sharing, games, and pornography.

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The threats to data security are most severe at home, a Seattle security expert told the Secure World Detroit conference at the Ford Conference and Events Center in Dearborn Wednesday.

Gordon Mitchell, president of Future Focus Inc., told the audience of a couple of hundred IT security professionals how to "become a counterspy in three easy lessons."

Mitchell said good counterspies must figure out what information is valuable, think about who could be a spy, think likea spy would and protect the information.

Companies and institutions are constantly surrounded by people who are spying on them, Michell said. The strategies can range from the sophisticated to the simple -- like the biotech client that actually had an employee listening to board meetings by using a drinking glass up against a wall.

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