Posts by Ian Dalziel
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OnPoint: The Source, in reply to BenWilson,
easily Led...
...particularly when there’s an alarming bustling in your hedgerow
are we now escalating this heavenward?
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OnPoint: MSD's Leaky Servers, in reply to Sacha,
Databus que...
‘data-busker’ has a certain ring to it...
a roving True-badour even
or black-and-white minstrel...
(no shades of gray here)
Thesaurus Rex...Their basic duty of care…
I think they think that the 'duty' bit means a tax of some sort...
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OnPoint: The Source, in reply to Lucy Stewart,
...targeting departments at random
– but, again, cost.Yet after the fact there's always money to clean up the mess these things can create...
an ounce of prevention....
I'm just wondering why the then Minister of Communications and Information Technology, Steven Joyce, or current minister Amy Adams hasn't been called on the appalling failure, thus far, of the 2011 NZ Cyber Security Strategy (links to PDF file)In which they assert that:
"The Government has a responsibility to protect its own systems and assist critical national infrastructure providers to ensure New Zealanders and New Zealand businesses can access government and other essential services."
and
"New Zealand’s Cyber Security Strategy has three priority areas:
1. Increasing Awareness and Online Security
2. Protecting Government Systems and Information
3. Incident Response and Planning"(my emphasis)
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OnPoint: The Source, in reply to Islander,
I luuurve paua!
I put real paua in a high place......one could almost describe the action
as, well, 'foot in mouth'...
yum!
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OnPoint: The Source, in reply to papango,
... hoping nobody asks what it is they do again
or why we’re paying for it.But surely the minister in charge would have all those answers ...
<coat>.
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Field Theory: All. Black., in reply to Terry Baucher,
a good deal for them as part of their rehabilitation
out of the red
and onto the black... -
classic Lift Pitch endings...
... and found the giant vulnerability instead.
There has to be a kids book in that
or some kinda kidult blend...
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Aren’t GCSB* mandated to deal with this stuff?
We could ask the minister in charge...
who said:“accessing the information wasn’t easy”
He should know, as he (and many of his ministers) have a large problem with any kind of memory systems...
* The Mission of the GCSB is to contribute to the national security of New Zealand through:
• providing foreign intelligence to support and inform Government decision making;
• providing a 24/7 intelligence watch and warning service to Government;
• ensuring the integrity, availability and confidentiality of official information through information assurance (IA) services to Government; and
• contributing to the protection of Critical National Infrastructure from cyber threats. -
OnPoint: MSD's Leaky Servers, in reply to Warren Clark,
...these machines have usb plugs prominently on the front making it trivial for people to copy large amounts of data off.
....or for a virus to get in - Stuxnet/duqu/flame anyone?
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the WINZ of whoa...
I found this lovely WINZ PDF online - (from 2008 I think) Work matters, people count - towards 2012 in which they say stuff like:Our current way of working is at near capacity. Creating space for change means relieving parts of the system to ensure our service has room to change and our staff have space to contribute.
We must:
• review our systems end to end to reduce duplication, rework and wasted effort
• invest in technology to allow self help and streamline staff processing
• build on the strengths of our culture as we change
• do what we say we are going to doand they outline their values:
Our people and the people we work with can rely on our values every working day:
• we put people first
• we team up with others to make a bigger difference
• we act with courage and respect
• we empower others to act
• we create new solutions
• we are ‘can do’, and we deliver
• we honour achievement.
Above all, we do the right thing for New Zealanders.and
We value excellence in everything we
do – not just what we do but how we do it.
We know that excellence and consistency
go hand in handIt's amazing what you can write when they're just words covering paper (or screen), no need to parse the content or intent, just let that PR flow...