Post Mortem of GunnAllen IT Meltdown 192
CowboyRobot writes "The story begins when GunnAllen, a financial company, outsourced all of its IT to The Revere Group. Before long, it was discovered that 'A senior network engineer had disabled the company's WatchGuard firewalls and routed all of the broker-dealer's IP traffic--including trades and VoIP calls--through his home cable modem.' In addition to the obvious security concerns of sending information such as bank routing information and driver's license numbers, the act violated SEC rules because the routed information was not being logged. Regardless of whether the cause was negligence, incompetence, or sabotage, the matter was swept under the rug for a time until unpaid SQL Server licenses meant threatening calls from Microsoft as well. The rest of the story is one of greed, mismanagement, and neglect, and ends with the SEC's first-ever fine for failure to protect customer data."
Wait a minute... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:HAHA (Score:5, Funny)
I worked at a place where the Exchange admin - every so often - would have to heroically worked 72 hours or whatever to rescue the mail servers and we only have 2 days of downtime, etc etc, and the CIO would praise him for his hardwork.
I asked my boss if I should also reboot the firewalls every now and then - just to heroically bring them back up again, and get thanked for my hardwork. He gave me a nasty look...
Re:Trusted Advisor? (Score:5, Funny)
Wow, according to the The Revere Group website:
WHEN TRANSFORMING THEIR BUSINESS, TOP PERFORMERS TURN TO A TRUSTED ADVISOR
...but they are too expensive, so they then turn to the Revere Group.
Re:OOHHH GOD!! (Score:3, Funny)
Sure, but first, show me an exchange installation that actually works.