Professor Elam

Thursday Oct  10 2013

Yesterday at Sa Internal Auditors, John Wallace with Resource Global explained the danger of malware infecting one's computer, grabbing your password and bank account number, and then having your account emptied.

In today's WSJ on page B6 two NSA employees have created Light Point Security. The idea is to use the Cloud to surf the Web. The browser is hosted on the server instead of the computer. the Could acts as a Firewall between you and potential malware. Apparently there is more interest in business than among consumers.

I e mailed John Wallace asking his opinion. In the mean time, he suggested using a separate computer that would only be employed for on line banking.