June 01, 2003 — CSO — In 2000, GAO investigators disguised as plainclothes officers showed fake badges and gained access to two major commercial airports and 19 federal buildings including the CIA, the FBI, the Justice Department and the Pentagon.
Source: GAO report, "Security: Breaches at Federal Agencies and Airports," May 25, 2000
Read more about critical infrastructure in CSOonline's Critical Infrastructure section.
Other stories by Kathleen Carr
What is Tech Briefcase?
TechBriefcase is a new, free service where IT Professionals can Search, Store and Share IT white papers and content like this. Learn more
Bookmark content
Speed up your research efforts with content across the web.
Search and Store
Find the white papers you need. Create folders for any topic.
View Anywhere
Open your briefcase on your iPhone, tablet or desktop. Share with colleagues.
CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE
ESSENTIAL READING
ESSENTIAL READING
Critical Infrastructure Webcasts
- The CISO's Survival Guide to Securing Data
- Data Privacy and Protection in Production Environments: New Research from Ponemon Institute
- FireEye Advanced Threat Protection KnowledgeVault
- Five Tips to Consider in a Data Security Strategy for Smartphones and Tablets
- Moving Your Email to the Trusted Cloud
- Comprehensive Server Protection
Critical Infrastructure White Papers
- Cloud Computing in the Midmarket: Assessing the Options
- Farmers Triples Email Usage and Meets FINRA Requirements with Integrated Messaging Solution
- Secunia Yearly Report: The evolution of software security from a global enterprise and end-point perspective
- Aberdeen Report: To Patch, or Not to Patch? (Not If, But How)
- Empowering Your Mobile Workers
- Best Practices for Active Directory Administration
- Busted: When security tools fail
This is a sequel to this morning's post about all operating systems, browsers etc. being vulnerable. A reader correctly noted that I forgot to mention that just about all the security tools out there are flawed, too. The exchange on Twitter went down like this: - Hey Linux, Mac and Windows users: It's ALL vulnerable
- Howard Schmidt went the distance
More Salted Hash with Bill BrennerWhite Papers
Sponsored Links
