If your agency deals in classified or sensitive information, you probably wage an ongoing war against Internet hackers. The danger isn’t so much from hackers’ creativity as much as it’s due to managers’ failures to seal security holes, establish policies for information sharing on intranets and public Web sites, and protect the data physically.
The SANS Institute of Bethesda, Md., recently sent an e-mail alert to network administrators to remind them of more than 1,000 known operating system vulnerabilities they should check for and close. If agencies won’t give administrators the time to make such checks and take the relevant training, their systems will continue to be vulnerable despite firewalls, intrusion detection software and other remedies.
News: Network Security
