all the new PCs and the new Web servers, multiplied by the fear of top management about security breaches and business-stopping system failures, kept these salaries growing three times as fast as salaries across all industries.
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The shortcut to improved security is universal, repeatable monitoring, ... The Army is now trying Harris STAT. The big difference is that NASA picked the most critical vulnerabilities rather than looking at all 2,000. The latter always leads to overload and lack of action. NASA's approach works.Alan Paller
There are no credit card numbers ... no Defense Department secrets. Although it would be terribly embarrassing for that data to get out, it's not terribly valuable ... unless somebody's trying to embarrass people.
Alan Paller
We have made enormous progress over the past five years by forcing the vendors to deliver automated patching. Now the bad guys are saying 'You did that, now we're going after the applications.' Now we have to start all over again.
Alan Paller
Alan Paller, director of the SANS Institute in Bethesda, Md., isn't so optimistic about how the new money would be used, however. My concern would be the skill with which Washington consultants and IT vendors in particular might package every pet project as 'security-enhancing,' ... If there were a tough, rational culling process ... I'd be a fan.
Alan Paller
Data I have says that 20 of the Internet is vulnerable to this, and that's a huge, huge percentage of the BIND servers, ... no reason why it won't skip to other Unix versions.
Alan Paller
The only viruses using the hole aren't very malicious, but that has nothing to do with tomorrow.
Alan Paller
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