Contest: Share your IT scares to win big!

Hi there!

It's that time of the year when we remember all that's spooky. Over the years, we have all come to fear several things. The dark, monsters under the bed, zombies, computers, wires, hackers...you get the drift.

Network security has given us all a fright or two (or a hundred, but who's counting?).

In the spirit of Halloween, we thought we could share our IT nightmares and have a few laughs too.

Do take up our survey and let us know what scares you the most about network security. We're giving away an iPad Mini 2 and an Amazon gift voucher worth $200 to the best survey answers!

Of course, though we are asking for your IT horror stories, we do wish for your networks to stay safe in the future. There are certain principles we all can follow to keep our networks free from harm, and we can discover them by revisiting our childhood tales - turns out, they have a lot to teach us about network security! So here's a pretty obvious one for today: