Re: All your database (and email) are belong to us ...

["Young, Keith" <Keith.Young () montgomerycountymd gov>]

> If they spend a portion of those billions of dollars on security, 
> sure.  But like most companies, security doesn't seem to be any more 
> 'built in from the ground up' than the next company. 

The difference is between outsourcing to the cloud and in sourcing for
governments is twofold:
        1) What is the financial incentive for governments to avoid
negative press due to a breach? What about Google and the like?
        2) The architecture is completely different. (Hopefully) no more
laptops containing entire employee databases, no more unpatchable/legacy
servers, no more unencrypted access to resources, etc.

--Keith

Keith Young, Security Official
Department of Technology Services
Montgomery County, Maryland
phone - (240) 777-2955 

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