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Punishment given to Ohio Government official for lost tape...


From: "Young, Keith" <Keith.Young () montgomerycountymd gov>
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 09:08:40 -0400

 

is the loss of about 1 week of future vacation time, even though "the
data breach is expected to cost the state upwards of $3 million."

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&;
taxonomyName=storage&articleId=9042001&taxonomyId=19&intsrc=kc_top

or 

http://tinyurl.com/399kog

One other interesting quote from the article:
"The next time the state takes on a project of this scope, we're going
to have people on the job whose major responsibility is just data
security,"

Doesn't Security Awareness 101 teach you that data security is
*everyone's* major responsibility?

--Keith

Keith Young, Security Official
Department of Technology Services
Montgomery County, Maryland
phone - (240) 777-2955

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