It gave Oregonians a REALLY SCARY future in the election of Shemia Fagan to SoS. If you think things are bad living in Oregon now, just wait, and Katie is grooming her as the next Gov.
Govt Cybersecurity expert here. I won't get very technical, I'll keep this one simple, but there are two important actions to take when standing up your government IT infrastructure.
You first harden the system using what are called- security technical implementation guides (STIGs). In the case of server 2008, there haven't been these guides (updated) for a number of years. Leaving your current configuration to be non-secure.
The second is your patching and/or software updates. Can you imagine if there was a remote access flaw identified in the last few years which is still existing on some of their machines? Then these machines are connected to the internet or any network, and now they are vulnerable?
In the government world having unsupported operating systems is a category one/critical vulnerability that will get your systems kicked off any government networks and your accreditation pulled...aka- you stop working.
if you ran a server 2008 system, your confidentiality and your integrity would be rightfully called into question
It gave Oregonians a REALLY SCARY future in the election of Shemia Fagan to SoS. If you think things are bad living in Oregon now, just wait, and Katie is grooming her as the next Gov.
Hopefully soon She'll be MIA
Does anybody like her?
Kate will handle business just don’t you worry
Govt Cybersecurity expert here. I won't get very technical, I'll keep this one simple, but there are two important actions to take when standing up your government IT infrastructure.
You first harden the system using what are called- security technical implementation guides (STIGs). In the case of server 2008, there haven't been these guides (updated) for a number of years. Leaving your current configuration to be non-secure.
The second is your patching and/or software updates. Can you imagine if there was a remote access flaw identified in the last few years which is still existing on some of their machines? Then these machines are connected to the internet or any network, and now they are vulnerable?
In the government world having unsupported operating systems is a category one/critical vulnerability that will get your systems kicked off any government networks and your accreditation pulled...aka- you stop working.
if you ran a server 2008 system, your confidentiality and your integrity would be rightfully called into question