Remember that documentary that was designed to literally scare kids away from a life of crime by giving them a hard look inside a real prison? Scared Straight. Applying a similar thought, Cisco Chief Security Officer John Stewart claims that the spoken word, not all the security tools at his disposal, is the most powerful tactic he has to get users to do their part in security. “Stewart said that his practice of sharing gory details of the attacks that get leveled at the company’s computing systems every day is one of his most effective means for pushing everyone in the massive firm to keep security on their minds as much as possible,” Matt Hines reports in Scaring users into IT security. “Each Friday, the company’s senior executives are asked to join a call on which one of Stewart’s 250 security staffers recounts the most dangerous attacks and incidents that have occurred at Cisco over the previous week.”Have any tales to tell that might scare users straight? Share them via the comments function below… Security