Remember my post on Cloud Computing and its risks.  Well I just read  
my Processor magazine and they are talking about Virtual Threats.   
That is threats to Virtual Servers.  So only now do all the risks  
appear. And this is a platform that has been out there about a year.

Guess what, personnel are still the risk. Staff, computer repair  
guys, new equipment installers and "virtually" anyone who comes in  
contact with the computers is a threat.(See that is a pun.  Pretty  
good!)

Many failures relate to policy issues.  (Sounds like a opening for  
someone good at procedures and policies and management.  Ding, Ding  
Ding Records Managers)

Imagine the threats to Cloud Computing because you don't even know  
where it is, you cannot enforce any policies and if your vendor goes  
out of business you are virtually ruined.  (I can't stop myself.)

If someone can explain how we let ourselves become so dependent on  
Computer designers that have no ability to create a sustainable  
platform and create a safe system that cannot be hacked into by high  
school kids with time on their hands.

I think we are at Pandora's box time.  We have created a platform  
that is so insecure that none of us are safe.  Our credit cards are  
at risk, our banks accounts are at risk and in this economy spending  
on security is going to be virtually non-existent.

If records managers cannot offer up some (eh, eh eh......not virtual)  
viable security solutions to protect your organization then  you are  
missing an opportunity to be a hero.

Maybe the reason IT keeps changing systems is that each one they  
create is flawed so rather than fix it they move to a new solution.   
Maybe if the guys building the computers took security seriously  
rather than something that slows us down, this would be fixed.

Hugh Smith
FIRELOCK Fireproof Modular Vaults
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