Five Ways to Get Yourself Fired

摘要

A colleague of mine last Christmas declared 2011 as The Year of Living Dangerously for Information Technology (IT) Security Officers. He said that he could see many pitfalls looming this year for the unwary in IT security and that many would end up on the dole. 2011 has indeed unleashed a wave of unprecedented security breaches that have left many people reeling - Epsilon, Sony WikiLeaks, PBS.org, RSA Security and HBGary Federal to mention only some of the victims. So to put this all in context, and provide a cautionary tale of the challenges facing IT security professionals, I have drafted a fictitious scenario to illustrate the 5 best ways to get yourself fired so that hopefully you never do! Happy reading.