Prosecution Witness: Bank Still Suffering Four Years After Attack
http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=188702662
A certain person I know who worked for a company not entirely dissimilar to the one in the article had, since joining, mentioned the benefits of anti-rootkit software, such as eTrust Access Control (formerly Seos) on a number of occasions, based on his experience with it at another bank. This earned him a bit of teasing from management, and from some colleagues.
Rumor has it that after an incident very much like the one in question occurred at his own company, he mentioned to his management that if eTrust had been deployed, the incident might have been prevented, or at least actively detected.
Management quickly skedaddled from the room, but not before the temperature there dropped by about 20° C.
It just goes to show, IT Security guys need to be smacked down, just on principle. Can't let the boffins get ideas above their station now, can we?
Nowadays, the person in question is working at another large bank that's had eTrust (among other active controls) deployed successfully for years. A bank that is able to devote rather more resources and attention to actually running the business.
Boffins running around loose, unsmacked! The horror, the horror.
http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=188702662
A certain person I know who worked for a company not entirely dissimilar to the one in the article had, since joining, mentioned the benefits of anti-rootkit software, such as eTrust Access Control (formerly Seos) on a number of occasions, based on his experience with it at another bank. This earned him a bit of teasing from management, and from some colleagues.
Rumor has it that after an incident very much like the one in question occurred at his own company, he mentioned to his management that if eTrust had been deployed, the incident might have been prevented, or at least actively detected.
Management quickly skedaddled from the room, but not before the temperature there dropped by about 20° C.
It just goes to show, IT Security guys need to be smacked down, just on principle. Can't let the boffins get ideas above their station now, can we?
Nowadays, the person in question is working at another large bank that's had eTrust (among other active controls) deployed successfully for years. A bank that is able to devote rather more resources and attention to actually running the business.
Boffins running around loose, unsmacked! The horror, the horror.
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