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OPM Data Breach - Whitehouse Petition - Help Wanted




--- rfg at tristatelogic.com wrote:
From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg at 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.
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>From personal experience (at a different level) this 
is SOP, unfortunately.  They just don't understand the
importance until catastrophic failure.

scott