Re:I discovered thousands of open databases on AWS
by toss1 on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @11:56AM
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>>unless it got to kill-the-company-now levels of fines.
I did mention that possibility - but to emphasize, it'd have to eb effectively death-penalty for the corporation - just wipe them out.
I'm still not sure that would be sufficient, because there are soooo many examples of horrible managers/executives just torching $$millions and failing up. If any of those executives ever got another job much above the level of sandwich-maker, it would provide no deterrent.
It really looks like at many levels, network and data security needs to be treated as a national security level problem, and any decision to fail to implement state-of-the-art level protections treated as a deliberate compromising of NatSec akin to leaving classified material or CUI (confidential unclassified info) on the sidewalk; not sure what the applicable law is, but that level of negligence is at least the start of serious trouble.
I did mention that possibility - but to emphasize, it'd have to eb effectively death-penalty for the corporation - just wipe them out.
I'm still not sure that would be sufficient, because there are soooo many examples of horrible managers/executives just torching $$millions and failing up. If any of those executives ever got another job much above the level of sandwich-maker, it would provide no deterrent.
It really looks like at many levels, network and data security needs to be treated as a national security level problem, and any decision to fail to implement state-of-the-art level protections treated as a deliberate compromising of NatSec akin to leaving classified material or CUI (confidential unclassified info) on the sidewalk; not sure what the applicable law is, but that level of negligence is at least the start of serious trouble.