[LINK] No more human sysadmins??

[Johann Kruse]

Rick Welykochy wrote:

>> If this is best practice, understood, and
>> already going on in major large organisations
>> now, why are data breaches at some of the most
>> sophisticated companies on the planet who sell
>> this stuff continuing to happen? Not just
>> Snowden, who did have top clearances (more a
>> governance accountability breach than a security
>> breach perhaps), but Apple, Sony, NHS (UK) etc etc?

> And although not that prevalent, some whoppers
> come up when you tick solely on "Inside Job."

> And it is to this last above to which this thread is addressed.

Correct - in my examples I was referring only to the insider job risk, discussing the original NSA article.  I didn’t cover external threats.