[geeks] Tiger Team: new CourtTV show on penetration testing

[Sandwich Maker]

" From: Sridhar Ayengar <ploopster at gmail.com>
" 
" Sandwich Maker wrote:
" > " Looks like CourtTV has a new series starting soon that follows a group
" > " of penetration testers as they go around doing their job.
" > 
" > if it just raises computer security awareness this show will be a good
" > thing.  everyone knows it's important, but too many who should know
" > better don't realize how insecure they are and think it's someone
" > else's job.
" 
" I've come across companies before who had their IT security standards 
" authored by physical site security people.  Sometimes their standards 
" actively make their systems *less* secure.

otoh itsec folks often overlook physical security.  recent case - an
employee disgruntled about his restricted electronic access pushed the
big red button that cut california off the national electric grid.
nothing much happened and it only cost $14k to undo, but if it had
been in the middle of a heatwave...

i just read in the latest sans security e-digest that hmrc [?] which
recently had a big flap concerning information theft -had- a security
guidelines doc, but it was considered 'too sensitive' for wide
distribution - to the very folks who needed to read it...
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