How the Feds prevent cyber attacks against the Federal Reserve

[thewayne]

Very interesting article about some of the internals of the people responsible for constantly monitoring the Federal Reserve's networks for data being exfiltrated or computers on their network being compromised. They will detect if you plug in an unauthorized USB device and your computer can be instantly shunted in to a walled garden until it can be seized and searched for badness.

Amazing job these people do. This article originally appeared on the Foreign Policy web site under a really ridiculous registration system.

http://foreign-policy6.blogspot.com/2014/04/exclusive-meet-secret-fed-cyber.html

Comments

[silveradept]

They probably would say they need more funding.

I still don't understand how profit-maximalists can get away with not thinking about possible liability in case of a data breach, though.

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

Quarterly profits > cost center that doesn't contribute to profits. If they get hit by a hack, chances are they have insurance,so anything that would drive down dividends and stock prices is not as important. Plus, golden parachutes.

[silveradept]

Oh, so we need to tie both corporate profits and executive salaries to data security, so that anyone suffering a hack forfeits their profits for the year and their executives get paid nothing.