RE: Ameriprise Loses Data on 230,000 Customers and Advisers

[Blanchard_Michael () emc com]

 I agree exactly, Think about it, would your company actually store or keep your customer records and information on a 
laptop???  Really, a friggin laptop containing your entire customer information database.... Never.  No company larger 
than 1 person would do that....it's just crazy....

 For that reason alone, those stories have got to be stretches of the truth...


Michael P. Blanchard 
Antivirus / Security Engineer, CISSP, GCIH, MCSE, MCP+I 
Office of Information Security & Risk Management 
EMC ² Corporation 
4400 Computer Dr. 
Westboro, MA 01580 
email:  Blanchard_Michael () EMC COM 

-----Original Message-----
From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org] On Behalf Of Mary Landesman
Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 12:01 PM
To: funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: Re: [funsec] Ameriprise Loses Data on 230,000 Customers and Advisers

Well, certainly if such sensitive data in such large quantities is being
housed on laptops, that is a HUGE problem. But I still think there are a
disproportionate number of reports of stolen and lost laptops containing
such data. So much so, that I am beginning to doubt that's the real story.

-- Mary

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gadi Evron" <ge () linuxbox org>
To: "Mary Landesman" <mlande () bellsouth net>
Cc: <funsec () linuxbox org>
Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 8:57 AM
Subject: Re: [funsec] Ameriprise Loses Data on 230,000 Customers and
Advisers


Mary Landesman wrote:
> Do you ever wonder about these 'stolen laptops' that allegedly contained
> tens or hundreds of thousands of sensitive records, myseriously stolen
from
> an automobile. Or fell off the back of a truck? Or disappeared in transit?
> There sure seems to be an awful lot of them...
>
> I wonder if 'stolen laptop' isn't the codename for 'internal security
> breach'.

Laptops *are* the breach.
:)

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