It has been a year since the city of San Francisco was held hostage because a city network administrator, Terry Childs, allegedly locked down the city’s IT system through a privileged account. Yet today, even with the heightened awareness created by this headline incident, companies continue to struggle, as evidenced by the Fannie Mae and Quantum Technology Partners cases, to protect access to their key systems and resources and reduce the risk of data breaches.
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Refining User Access to Keep Employee Power in Check
Posted by: Adam Bosnian July 23, 2009 04:00 AMIt has been a year since the city of San Francisco was held hostage because a city network administrator, Terry Childs, allegedly locked down the city’s IT system through a privileged account. Yet today, even with the heightened awareness created by this headline incident, companies continue to struggle, as evidenced by the Fannie Mae and Quantum Technology Partners cases, to protect access to their key systems and resources and reduce the risk of data breaches.