http://www.csoonline.com/article/589831/Maley_Here_s_How_Firing_REALLY_Went_Down By Bill Brenner Senior Editor CSO April 06, 2010 SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Former State of Pennsylvania CISO Robert Maley has been watching all the news about his firing for talking about a security incident without permission at last month's RSA conference. He wants everyone to know that they shouldn't believe everything they read and hear. He began a talk on application security at CSO Perspectives 2010 Tuesday by going off topic and addressing the controversy head on. He said he was at RSA while on vacation because the state had cut the security budget by 38 percent, eliminating things like conference travel. "Being responsible for securing the information of 12 million citizens, I always felt events like this one and RSA are huge because of what you can learn from others," he said. He said he chose to discuss a scam targeting the online driving test system at the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation as an example of how successfully the security program he built over three years worked. Because of state Website monitoring procedures, the incident was caught early, he said. "By the time I talked about it at RSA, the matter was totally closed," he said. [...] ___________________________________________________________ Register now for HITBSecConf2010 - Dubai, the premier deep-knowledge network security event in the GCC, featuring keynote speakers John Viega and Matt Watchinski! http://conference.hitb.org/hitbsecconf2010dxb/Received on Wed Apr 07 2010 - 22:20:06 PDT
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