On Wed, Nov 8, 2023 at 7:58 PM Dick Roy via Nnagain wrote: > > Yes, today one can argue that there is a shortage of talent, however Paul's > point was that that I s not the first problem to solve, in fact the problem > that must be solved first is: > > " We're in a hole, here, folks. The first thing we should do is: stop > digging.” > > ... and he is right IMHO!
If Katherine Archuleta had enough talent to heed the warnings from the IG there's a chance there wouldn't have been a breach. The organization should have been well past the "stop digging" phase when the breach occurred. > > https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/lack-talent-problem-cyber-paul-vixie/ > > Nothing that happened at OPM, or failed to happen at OPM, was the fault of > > its leadership team. Wrong. At the very least, management should have been closing the holes that had been identified. again, looking at https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/The-OPM-Data-Breach-How-the-Government-Jeopardized-Our-National-Security-for-More-than-a-Generation.pdf on page 6 How the Breach Happened. Despite this high value information maintained by OPM, the agency failed to prioritize cybersecurity and adequately secure high value data. The OPM Inspector General (IG) warned since at least 2005 that the information maintained by OPM was vulnerable to hackers. The leadership team ***was warned***. Given that they "failed to ... adequately secure high value data", how is whatever did or didn't happen at OPM _NOT_ the fault of the leadership team? I'll agree that > > Katherine Archuleta should not have had to ... be an expert on "cyber" > > security But she _did_ need to listen to the experts that were warning her about how bad security was. And she needed enough talent to realize that she should heed the warnings from her cyber security experts. > and also because she had a reasonable expectation that somebody, somewhere, > knew how completely and ruinously bad all of the IT (Information Technology) > in the world was, and would have told her that there was no safety anywhere > except on paper, in filing cabinets, guarded by the U.S. Military. Seriously? There is no absolute security so no matter how much leadership ignores warnings, or how bad the security is in the organization they're running, it's not their fault when a security breach happens? Do you really buy that? Would you be OK with your bank or any other organization that has your PII thinking like that? speaking of which.. How do you feel about Equifax? Oh well.. nothing that could have been done, they should have been put out of business or something in between? Regards, Lee > > RR > > -----Original Message----- > From: Nnagain [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lee > via Nnagain > Sent: Wednesday, November 8, 2023 2:47 PM > To: Network Neutrality is back! Let´s make the technical aspects heard this > time! > Cc: Lee > Subject: Re: [NNagain] cybersecurity is not a talent problem > > On Wed, Nov 8, 2023 at 2:22 PM Dave Taht via Nnagain wrote: > > > > Paul Vixie reposted this old piece of his, even more relevant today, than > > 2015. > > > > https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/lack-talent-problem-cyber-paul-vixie/ > > I disagree. With a lot, but let's just go with this > > The "cyber" security problems that the US Government, and every other > > government, and every large and medium enterprise are all coping with today > > do not stem from lack of "cyber" talent. > > Take a look at > > https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/The-OPM-Data-Breach-How-the-Government-Jeopardized-Our-National-Security-for-More-than-a-Generation.pdf > > on page 9: > The bottom line. The longstanding failure of OPM's leadership to > implement basic cyber > hugiene, such as maintaining current authorities to operate and > employing strong multi-factor > authentication, despite years of warnings from the Inspector General, > represents a failure of > culture and leadershit, not technology. > > There is no substitute for talent. > > Regards, > Lee > _______________________________________________ > Nnagain mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/nnagain > > _______________________________________________ > Nnagain mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/nnagain _______________________________________________ Nnagain mailing list [email protected] https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/nnagain
