OPM Data Breach - Whitehouse Petition - Help Wanted

[Patrick.Darden at p66.com (Darden, Patrick)]

I believe, if the fruit is small enough, you could sneak some of this in through the cracks.  Bull it through via sheer determination.  But I understand what you mean....  The more official it is, the more visible it is, the more difficult it is....  The same for any bureaucracy, but a quantum leap here.

-- patrick darden


-----Original Message-----
From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces at nanog.org] On Behalf Of Jim Popovitch
Sent: Friday, June 19, 2015 9:12 AM
To: nanog at nanog.org
Subject: [EXTERNAL]Re: OPM Data Breach - Whitehouse Petition - Help Wanted

On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 9:55 AM, Darden, Patrick <Patrick.Darden at p66.com> wrote:
> Good point.  It's a massive job, and sometimes it is best to look at those piecemeal.  Start with small goals, and pick low hanging fruit--your example of the server room is good.  Set it up with and IDS, a firewall, harden the hosts by turning off/removing unused/unneeded services, setting up tripwire, and encrypt all data on the drives, then look to password policy enforcement.  Then start actively securing it (monthly audits, daily log checks, etc.).  Doable.  Then pick the next lowest hanging fruit and repeat.

You left out:
    Formulate Bid Solicitation team
    Procure funding for Bid Solicitation team
    Request Congressional approval for Bid Solicitation team
    Request funding for team to win Congressional approval of Bid Solicitation team
    Receive first round funding for team to win Congressional approval.....
    Director retires, project status in limbo
    New round of higher funding sought
    Congressional recess, projects in limbo
    Bid process begins, 3 of 4 are non-GSA and require further funding for new approval process
    After 2 years of paperwork, initial funding for 2 year old IDS
v1.1 (that's what was approved!) is approved.
    repeat, ad nauseam

-Jim P.