Can we learn from the non DoD Industry about protecting national security?
It seems like we should be able to. The lessons are obvious, but the application may not always be so clear. The same threat methodology applied credit cards, customer data bases, and financial transaction websites exist for the defense industry. The products may be diverse, but the result is usually the same; very sensitive information is released and those slow to react are in the business of performing damage control. Last December, Target shoppers were disheartened to discover that their private information became available to bad guys as a result of some pretty detailed scheme to get that information. Now these shoppers 'credit information is vulnerable, threatening possibilities of data theft many times over. Many, such as my family, suddenly found ourselves in possession of newly issued credit cards as our banks cancelled suspect credit cards in response to the data breech. According to the article in the Wall Street Journal, Target Says Hackers Used Credentials...