three strikes, and if you think toys with lead paint are all you have to worry about, think again

Wow... from Dark Reading, the sad, sad story of Pfizer's recent security debacle, Pfizer: Strike Three. Three major security breaches in three months, the latest the result of internal employee theft. My favorite quote: "A Pfizer spokesman called the breaches "three separate and distinct incidences" that bear no relationship to each other." Really. Are you out of your mind? Of course they are related -- they are related to a failure of leadership at the highest level in the area of FIXING their problems. Lay off the Viagra over there, and start thinking with your big head.

http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=133028&f_src=drweekly


On a positive note, from CIO.com, the German government is taking steps to prevent further hacking of its systems by China. Germany is working in conjunction with industry to protect government and infrastructure systems from attack. Excellent.

http://www.cio.com/article/135352/Germany_Aims_to_Protect_IT_Systems_With_Security_Plan


On the other hand, from FT.com: Chinese military hacked into Pentagon. OK, China is the one of the world's largest and fastest growing economies. That counts for something. The fact that they own a sizable amount of the US debt is another. But holy crap, don't we draw the line somewhere here?

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/9dba9ba2-5a3b-11dc-9bcd-0000779fd2ac.html


From Dark Reading, a short entry that makes a couple of very good points. Firewalled: What Have You Got to Hide? 61% of companies survey have a data classification policy, most say it is rarely enforced and many say it is out of date. So, if you don't know what data is critical to your business, you try to protect everything. Very often that drives the price of a storage security /business continuance solution WAY up, which means you elect to protect nothing. This deserves greater consideration.

http://www.darkreading.com/blog.asp?blog_sectionid=327&doc_id=132867


Hope you've decided what's critical to a great weekend. I'll be putting up tomato sauce... about as low tech as you can get!