To: i-node who wrote (842710 ) 3/14/2015 12:32:47 AM From: FJB Read Replies (1) | Respond to That was a WSJ article.IN a Sunday article for GeekWire.com, Christopher Budd , a specialist in both computer security and public relations, argues that Mrs. Clinton’s use of a private server while secretary of state may “represent one of the most serious breaches in data handling that we’ve ever heard of.” He lists three reasons: 1. The Secretary of State is a very “high value target” from the standpoint of nation-state threat actors. The President, Secretary of Defense and the head of the CIA would also qualify in this top tier. These individuals handle the most important, most sensitive, most dangerous and therefore most interesting information to foreign intelligence. 2. Nation-state threat actors represent the top of the food chain in terms of adversaries in information security. Nation-states can bring the most talent and resources to bear in this arena. For all the worry about cybercriminals and terrorists, everyone in information security looks at nation-state threat actors as the most advanced and sophisticated threat to defend against.3. Take #1 and #2 together and you have a situation where the very high value targets are threatened by the most advanced and sophisticated offensive information security capabilities out there. Put another way, the best of the best are gunning for those people to get their information. The third point is critical: if the best of the best are after your information, you need the best of your best protecting it. And there is simply no way that a “homebrew” server is EVER going to have the security and resources appropriate to defend it adequately. The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that according to Venafi, an Internet security company, “the Clinton server was encrypting data it sent and received as of March 29, 2009.” But “during the first two months of her tenure . . . it doesn’t appear that Mrs. Clinton’s email had such protections.”
