This blog post offers 10 security ideas that have been -- and in many cases still are -- shunned as too offbeat to work but that function quite effectively in helping secure the company's IT assets. The companies employing these methods don't care about arguing or placating the naysayers. They see the results and know these methods work, and they work well.
1: Renaming admins
2: Getting rid of admins
3: Honeypots
4: Using nondefault ports
5: Installing to custom directories
6: Tarpits
7: Network traffic flow analysis
8: Screensavers
9: Disabling Internet browsing on servers
10: Security-minded development
