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July 15, 2004
Hayseed Update
Now our state's Homeland Security department wants to know how the Highway Department's FTP server got compromised and if there's any more like it on the system.
Gary Underwood, chief security officer for the state computer network, said Wednesday that he has been asked to find out whether any of the state's computer system's servers have been infiltrated.
"We have sent out an e-mail asking all the state agencies to tell us if they've experienced problems along the same lines," Underwood said Wednesday. "They have also been asked to report back to us how many FTPs (file transfer protocols) they have and how many are secure and not secure."
The e-mail was necessary because you see, he didn't know. That's right, our state chief IT security officer doesn't know how many unsecured FTP servers the state system has.
The correct answer should've been zero....as in none. As in it is against our state IT security policy to have unsecured FTP servers on the state system.
What exactly does this person get paid by our tax dollars to do?
Posted by Rita at July 15, 2004 07:19 AM
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"What exactly does this person get paid by our tax dollars to do?"
Have coffee and surf for porn, apparently.
Posted by: Keith at July 15, 2004 08:56 AM
He must be like the Highway Dept.'s spokesman, who is apparently paid to make such asinine statements as "no taxpayer dollars were lost [by the server's illicit use] because the state uses that particular bandwidth for free in a deal with fiber optic companies." Like that's even an issue.
I knew you'd love it.
Posted by: rita at July 15, 2004 09:00 AM
and you guys are in the top ten, hmmm...
Posted by: Randy at July 15, 2004 12:09 PM