I don't know, maybe it's just me, but in the light-speed world of cybertechnology, isn't a brontosaurus of a government the least-suited entity to be in charge of devising defenses against it? And wouldn't one figure that as big a gonzo/big gulp pack of statists as the Obama Regime would be the most likely bunch to have left this gaping hole in our defenses so neglectfully unaddressed?:
The federal government's system designed to protect sensitive data from hacks has been affected by delays and claims that it is already outdated, even though it has yet to be fully implemented, the Hill reported.
The Einstein system was designed to prevent cyber breaches like the attack recently on the Office of Personnel Management which compromised as many as four million records; one of the largest breaches of government personnel data in history.....
The multibillion-dollar system, critics say, has drawn attention away from the more important task of overhauling security.
"I've spoken to government agencies — it is frightening what I hear from them," Hitesh Sheth, CEO of Vectra, which helps companies monitor their networks, told the Hill. "They'll tell me, 'We have ten-year-old technology. We are going through a review period. Maybe in nine months we'll get around to upgrading our firewall.'" [emphasis added]
Ten years. A decade. While computer capabilities (memory capacity, processor speeds, etc.) double every eighteen months. And that doesn't take software and malware and "tapeworm" algorithms and whatever the hell other cyberadvances into account. It's a disaster waiting to happen. It's a preordained fiasco. A cascade-travesty. A pathetic joke.
How bad is it? The (former) poor bastard civil servants in the bowels of the Obama Regime aren't bothering to try and spin it and are going on the record to not do so:
Defenders of Einstein admit that the federal protections in place are not enough.
"The capabilities are necessary but in no way near sufficient to be able to counter the threats we see today," Michael Brown, a former director of cybersecurity coordination for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), who worked on the Einstein rollout, told the Hill.
"It's just not agile enough," said Christopher Cummiskey, a former acting undersecretary for management at the DHS who oversaw a number of the agency's cyber efforts. "You're always going to be behind the curve."
Until you get in front of it, that is. An extraordinarily difficult task for Leviathan, but shouldn't they at least give it the ol' college try?
Absolutely.
Are they? What do you think?:
"Where's the leadership?" said Cory Fritz, a spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner, according to the Hill. "The federal government has just been hit by one of the largest thefts of sensitive data in history, and this White House is trying to blame anyone but itself. It's absolutely disgusting."
Again, Cory, it's not about a lack of leadership, but the wrong kind. The Obamunists were state-of-the-art in illegal online campaign fundraising and get-out-the-vote/suppress-the-conservative-vote-efforts and are all-in on building gargantuan Big-Brother-esque comprehensive national databases (as with ObamaCare) for the ChiComms to glom at their leisure. But preventing such glomming and building healthcare cartel websites? Not so much.
But don't worry, folks; DHS insists that the agency does what it can to fend off cyberattacks. So we're covered.
Kind of like if Miley Cyrus had been garbed in Saran-Wrap in that wrecking ball video.
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