* Posts by Gweihir

1 publicly visible post • joined 2 Feb 2008

How to lose $7.2bn with just a few Basic skills

Gweihir

Beginners mistakes....

For example, even a light-weight IT security certification like the CISSP advises mandatory vacation for audits. Permission handling obviously must be done with individual passwords, that expire or are actively extended only if approved again. Several other things. Quite frankly, if a student of IT sec at my university makes the mistakes these people likely made (and I think your speculation is entirely plausible), he or she will fail the exam because of gross incompetence.

Seems to me your run-of-the-mill foodstore has better security than these people. It should be criminally neglient to operate a business like this with amateur-level security.