Government Networks Get an 'F' Wired reports that although security has been tightened country wide after the September 11th attacks, a house panel has graded U.S. network security with a big, shiny "F". The failing grade is actually worse than the D- they earned this time last year. Perhaps the government should be less concerned with the critics of virus manufacturers and more concerned with the slacking that occurs in their own backyards.
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the lan/wan I maintain at work is hard enough to keep virus free/hacker proof. can you imagine how hard it is to keep something like the dept of commerce running???
i remember distinctly meeting with local gov't officials before Y2K and they seemed prepared for the worst...perhaps Louisville, KY has a better plan for security than the feds do?? (hard to imagine, I know)
if the gov't gets an F, can you imagine what corporate america at large would get if they were graded????
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| Re: or better yet... But there are so many simple, and stupid things you can do to at least raise that grade to a D, or a C-. The article cites people leaving their passwords written on post-its, or using "password" as the password. Basic fundamental security errors that would at least be a start, before you even worry about the actual network architecture and design flaws.
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kudos:1 | Some problems 1. Too many systems, all with different style passwords and logins. (I have 9 that I can remember, and I am sure with open benefit season arriving, I will have several more that I forgot about)
2. Turf wars, the old mainframe gods are locking down PCs and spending more time on making it harder to work and restricting what you can do than on protecting the network (of course, it does not help that the fed is a microsoft house and the email on vulnerabilities is sometimes faster than you can read it). | |
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