------ Forwarded Message From: matthew Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 06:53:22 -0800 (PST)
> information. DOD officials are now considering new policy and > acquisition initiatives to improve information assurance. For the last time, Security is a PEOPLE problem!! I'm ready to scream. When DoD civilians and in particular self-important political appointees (and their sycophants) flout DoD/DISA/OSD/JTF security policy because they are "too special" to be concerned with having to have good (or any) passwords, refuse to use the provided secure access mechanisms, or fly into a rage over having to even take Information Assurance training (all of 45min long) or suffer the indignity and inconvenience of a screensaver with a password then the problem has NOTHING to do with acquisitions. Revised acquisitions also does nothing to remedy the fact that large sections of the Pentagon STILL run NT4, have been dragging their butts for 5+ years about moving to 2K let alone newer stuff, and forcing the rest of us who have already moved (albeit very belatedly) to maintain holes because the parent org who controls mail are STILL on Exchange 5.5. Then there is that jewel of thought that goes something like "No, all departments will no longer be permitted to have firewalls. Because firewalls prevent us from scanning and rooting all your boxes. And no, there will be but one forest and all you little people (who've been on AD for years now whereas the parent still isn't) will be OU's. I guess nobody bothered to read MS' handbook about forests being the only real security boundary. The totally LAME justification for doing everything wrong? "oh, we want to eliminate all departmental helpdesks. And deploy all those enterprise applications." What supposed applications would that be again? Yeah, thought so. Sometimes I just want to yell "are you people freaking stupid?!" at the top of my lungs. But I'll just wait for the revised acquisition strategy to save the day. Now where did I put my morphine drip. Self-medication is a great thing. ------ End of Forwarded Message You are a subscribed member of the infowarrior list. Visit www.infowarrior.org for list information or to unsubscribe. This message may be redistributed freely in its entirety. Any and all copyrights appearing in list messages are maintained by their respective owners.
