I understand the concept of all individuals responsible. But in this case where the man in charge of training was negligent in his responsibilities and duties all that lower individuals would need to do is denied ever having been taught the proper procedures needed for protecting their systems and since the company punished the director it would build their self-defense case.
I live next to South Carolina and I am shocked by how they allowed this to happen. I shudder to think about all of those poor people who were put in harms way because of this mess. I have no idea on why they did not practice safety first, but I am hoping that those who were responsiblefor this mess will pay the price for this all around nightmare.As for the moral of all of this, encryption is key here for everyone who deals with highly dangerous material or personal data
Oh yes. In case of South Carolina's breach, if the employees are being held accountable for clicking on doubtful mails, then I guess it is unfair to them. It is the IT department whose task was it to block such mails on the server. This is how such a big number can be responsible for the act. Instead the investigators should find out few who were responsible for overall security and oversight.
@ mtechie
Definitely. But the number of non-compliers will be so big that not everyone can be fired. The jobs of management level employees may however be reconsidered.
Acceptance of the failure and discussing it out in the open needs to be appreciated for two reasons. One is that merely a press release by any executive of revenue department would have been sufficient. Announcement by governor tells that he realizes the critical nature of information involved and how important data security is. The other reason is that his announcement will help other states and countries realize that we all are lagging behind and it can happen to any of us.
Kudos for the leader for taking the heat. But, at the same time, so long as individual employees are not held accountable - what will happen to change their work patterns.
In general (or certainly a much higher rate than online) people have excellent personal security procedures for their wallet and their house and car keys - but they take little care of their account names and passwords.
Most folks use offline security practices even though they now live in an online world.
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