"... the top four strategies would have prevented at least 85% of the intrusions ..."

MrBrian · Aug 30, 2014

From Topics from Cybersecurity Bootcamp #1 – Cyber Hygiene:

The latest [Australian Defence Signals Directorate] report (February 2014) now generally asserts that the effectiveness of the top four strategies remains high and would have, if implemented as a package, mitigated at least 85% of cyber intrusions which the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) responds to. The top four strategies are:
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Tarnak · Aug 30, 2014

I have saved that particular .pdf for further reading.

Minimalist · Aug 30, 2014

Interesting:

Would similar cyber hygiene steps help with home users? Everyone loves to talk about the threat from zero-days, but when my colleagues and I analyzed real world exploits in our 2011 Security Intelligence Report, we found that less than 1 percent of exploits in the first half of 2011 were against zero-day vulnerabilities — software vulnerabilities that are successfully exploited before the vendor has published a security update or “patch.” In contrast, 99 percent of all attacks during the same period distributed malware through familiar techniques, such as social engineering and unpatched vulnerabilities. Basically, we found that the most common threats can be mitigated through good security practices by individuals too.
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I agree with their find.

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