What are the implications of the idea that the recent flurry of hacking incidents is as much a failure of policy and governance within the organizations as it is being the target of highly skilled hackers?
Tell us what you think… Mary
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It would be interesting to determine if there is a correlation between these incidents and a new release of Backtrack becoming openly available, especially investigating if a trend exists that coincides with tutorials or forum conversations.
Backtrack is a downloadable Linux virtual machine containing a wide variety of ready-to-use network and system penetration tools.
While I wouldn’t comment about any specific organization, I would opine that organizations perhaps only budget enough funding to meet their own perception of security compliance and risk avoidance. Internal governance probably is lacking beyond anything perceived as slowing down a process. Unless an audit red-flags an issue, correction probably falls by the wayside, or heads to the “back-burner” of IT department “things to do” (that never get done).