Thursday, March 22, 2007

The biggest security threat is -- human errror.

When I was looking over the slides on security, I thought of this article.

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/03/20/america/NA-GEN-US-Lost-Data.php

A computer technician accidentally formatted a hard drive containing information for a $38 billion account -- and the backup tapes did not work.

At least they had backup paperwork -- in 300 cardboard boxes. It cost over $200,000 to reenter the data.

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