Sobering Advice to CIOs from Pentagon Official
The breach at the Pentagon's Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) in June 2007 is turning out to be worse than first anticipated. From Government Executive:
"This was a very bad day," said Clem [OSD's chief information officer] during a panel discussion at the Information Processing Interagency Conference Tuesday. The breach continues to pose a threat, he added. "We don't know when they'll use the information they stole, [which was] an amazing amount, [including] processes and procedures that will be valuable to adversaries."
There are more details at Ars Technica, but the most important part of the story is Clem's advice, again from Government Executive:
"This was something that [I thought] would never happen to me," he said. "Boy, was I wrong.... They're working hard, these people, and they're after us all the time... . If you don't know your network, and you're more of a policy CIO, you may find yourself in trouble."
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