Kludge
08-12-2011, 02:28 AM
"We just wrote about a GAO report showing how the Defense Department is somewhat incompetent at dealing with online threats. Of course, it's not clear that anyone else in the government is any better. The GAO is back with yet another report, dinging the State Department for its dreadful computer security monitoring program. In this case, it's talking about threats to the State Department's network, rather than to third parties. And while the State Department spent a whopping $1.2 billion of taxpayer money on a fancy computer system, called iPost, to monitor everything, it turns out that it only works on Windows machines:
But the iPost service only covers computers that use Microsoft's Windows operating system, not other assets such as the roughly 5,000 routers and switches along State's network, non-Windows operating systems, firewalls, mainframes, databases and intrusion detection devices, GAO auditors said.
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Full story with cross-reference links & comments @ http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110810/04090315463/state-department-spent-12-billion-asset-monitoring-system-that-ignores-all-non-windows-equipment.shtml
But the iPost service only covers computers that use Microsoft's Windows operating system, not other assets such as the roughly 5,000 routers and switches along State's network, non-Windows operating systems, firewalls, mainframes, databases and intrusion detection devices, GAO auditors said.
..."
Full story with cross-reference links & comments @ http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110810/04090315463/state-department-spent-12-billion-asset-monitoring-system-that-ignores-all-non-windows-equipment.shtml