Oy and vey. You know that LAN switch security you're so content with? What if someone told you it could be compromised with little or no effort? That's what experts are saying about your behind-the-firewall secure feeling. Over at Network World, in an exclusive interview with Christopher Paggen, author of a LAN switch security book, Paggen says that most LAN-borne attacks happen through a local person connected to your network port. Yep. Right there in your building.

Before you go firing the employees and locking down computers, look a bit further. Paggen and co-author Eric Vyncke say that malicious guests could also spoil your party, as well as what they call "swiss army knife tools".

Read the transcript of the interview at the Network World web site.