Re: OPM Data Breach - Whitehouse Petition - Help Wanted

["Scott Weeks" <surfer () mauigateway com>]

--- rfg () tristatelogic com wrote:
From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg () tristatelogic com>

    *)  The Director of the Office of Personnel Management, Ms. Katherine
        Archueta was warned, repeatedly, and over several years, by her
        own department's Inspector General (IG) that many of OPM's systems
        were insecure and should be taken out of service.  Nontheless, as
        reveled during congressional testimony yesterday, she overruled
        and ignored this advice and kept the systems online.
-------------------------------------------


> From personal experience (at a different level) this 
is SOP, unfortunately.  They just don't understand the
importance until catastrophic failure.

scott