[LINK] Thales APEC security fiasco

[Marghanita da Cruz]

Rick Welykochy wrote:
> Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:
> 
>> APEC pass farce: it's no go
>> Edmund Tadros
>> August 28, 2007 - 2:20PM
>> SMH
>> http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/apec-pass-farce-its-no-go/2007/08/28/1188067091460.html 
>>
>>
>> The security accreditation cards for the Asia-Pacific Economic 
>> Co-operation forum have stopped working, hours after the APEC 
>> Taskforce began issuing them.
> 
> [SNIP]
> 
> This fiasco makes a mockery of ISO 9001 Quality Accreditation as claimed by
> Thales in their own brochure spruiking their large event security product.
> 
> http://www.adi-limited.com/blank.html?./content/docs/brochures/civil/8pp_apec_2007_brochure_april_2007_lowres.pdf 
> 
> 
> or
> 
> http://tinyurl.com/33k569
> 
> The link is to a PDF document entitled "Security Solutions for Critical
> Infrastructure and Large Events". On page six read all about their
> supposed quality certification.
> 
> I've worked in organisations with such certification and always found
> it an ongoing joke. Kind of like having MCSE credentials :)
> 
>> The Herald has been told that there had been numerous problem with the 
>> APEC registration website run by Thales with many pages not correctly 
>> capturing the data.
> 
> Quality accreditation or not, how hard is it to get a web site correct
> and then test it thoroughly these days? One really wonders.
> "It's not rocket surgery!"
> 
> If you have under-qualified staff working on projects like Thale's,
> no amount of ISO 9001 accreditation is going to help out of the
> deep dark chasm dug by incompetence.
> 
> The Thales web site is running on Microsoft-IIS/5.0, which is quite an
> old product, geared to MS Server 2000. But we all know that any quality
> system eschews the use of IIS and related infrastructure for one very
> good reason: THEY ARE INSECURE PRODUCTS!
> 
> I feel a foxymoron coming on.
> 

Is there any mention of ISO 27001?
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_27001>

Marghanita
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