http://fcw.com/articles/2009/05/11/c...ty-a-drag.aspx
Right. I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but a good analogy is that traffic laws slow everybody down, but society deems them necessary to have them to minimize the chance of some idiot in a car smearing your kids on the street. They may chafe when you you're in a hurry, but no one really wants to repeal them because of the potential for greater harm.
I floors me that people like Sec. Chu can't see that.
By Matthew Weigelt
FCW.com
May 11, 2009
Energy secretary wants to balance information security, mission
Energy Secretary Steven Chu has said the Energy Department needs to consider whether its information security systems are worth the drag on its mission.
“We’re going to be looking at information technologies," Chu said at press briefing May 7 about the department's fiscal 2010 budget proposal.
"Do we have the right balance between keeping our IT secure from viruses to how it compromises productivity?”
In an April 29 speech at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colo., Chu said “well-meaning people” in the chief information officer’s office and in the procurement and finance offices “whose job it is to protect the Department of Energy” actually hinder what the department can do.
“They forgot the Department of Energy has a job, and it’s not to protect the Department of Energy. It’s to get something done,” he said. Terrible accidents and financial waste are bad things, he said, but added, “It has to be balanced against the mission of the department and so this is something that I feel very strongly about.”
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FCW.com
May 11, 2009
Energy secretary wants to balance information security, mission
Energy Secretary Steven Chu has said the Energy Department needs to consider whether its information security systems are worth the drag on its mission.
“We’re going to be looking at information technologies," Chu said at press briefing May 7 about the department's fiscal 2010 budget proposal.
"Do we have the right balance between keeping our IT secure from viruses to how it compromises productivity?”
In an April 29 speech at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colo., Chu said “well-meaning people” in the chief information officer’s office and in the procurement and finance offices “whose job it is to protect the Department of Energy” actually hinder what the department can do.
“They forgot the Department of Energy has a job, and it’s not to protect the Department of Energy. It’s to get something done,” he said. Terrible accidents and financial waste are bad things, he said, but added, “It has to be balanced against the mission of the department and so this is something that I feel very strongly about.”
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I floors me that people like Sec. Chu can't see that.
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