Re: Office of Management and Budget: 'People are losing data'

[George Toft <george () myitaz com>]

I would like to point out the obvious - there are FAR more incidents 
occurring than are being reported (and it is not just in the Government).

George Toft, CISSP, MSIS
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lyger wrote:
> http://www.fcw.com/article96686-11-02-06-Web
>
> Between July and Sept. 30, agencies reported 338 separate security 
> incidents involving personally identifiable information to the Office of 
> Management and Budget, Karen Evans, OMB.s administrator for e-government 
> and information technology, said today.
>
> Many of the incidents, however, are not attacks on government information 
> from outsiders, Evans said in a speech at the IT Association of America.s 
> annual Chief Information Security Officer Workshop in Falls Church, Va.
>
> "Primarily, people are losing data," she said.
>
> [...]
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