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I work for the Internet, at @stripe, mostly on accelerating startups. Opinions here are my own.

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    1. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 4 Oct 2017
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      There is no centralized list, anywhere, of what software is deployed and what version it is. There is no process run against that list.

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    2. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 4 Oct 2017
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      There are either no automated scans of deployed systems or they are severely deficient.

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    3. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 4 Oct 2017
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      Management, up to and including the CEO, was aware of these deficiencies in controls and did not correct them, for years.

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    4. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 4 Oct 2017
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      This is the sort of situation in which a Japanese CEO would resign while taking the blame for a lax managerial environment. That is correct.

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    5. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 4 Oct 2017
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      Speaking of failures in leadership: if your immediate instinct as a leader is not to protect your team then what leader are you?

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    6. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 4 Oct 2017
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      Congress is filled with idiots who can't insert a floppy disk correctly, and they want their pound of flesh. Alright, sucks. OFFER YOURS.

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    7. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 4 Oct 2017
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      Equifax is entertaining questions on the employment status of the employee they blamed for this, because they blamed an employee for this.

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    8. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 4 Oct 2017
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      At least they're saying "No comment" on that, but comment should never have been asked for, because CEO/CTO/etc should have jumped on this.

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    9. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 4 Oct 2017
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      Also, since security is a process rather than a single binary event, there were numerous opportunities to improve even if compromised.

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    10. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 4 Oct 2017
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      Banks expect to get robbed! They don't expect to get robbed of Literally All Of The Money because it was kept in a single unlocked room.

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      Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 4 Oct 2017
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      Equifax had terabytes of data exfiltrated off of their network. "And did we notice it?" "Nope." "And whose job was it to notice?" "..."

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        2. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 4 Oct 2017
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          You would hope that a company with critical information would have wargamed out breach scenarios years ago and put in layers of defense.

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        3. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 4 Oct 2017
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          "OK, if they pop a server, what do we do?" "An alarm is raised; we push the Madagascar button." "The what?" "Shut. Down. Everything."

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        4. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 4 Oct 2017
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          I will bet at 100 to 1 odds that Equifax has no Madagascar button, the utility of which is obvious years before any particular breach.

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        5. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 4 Oct 2017
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          I would also bet that Equifax did not think of the question "Who has the authority to push the Big Red Button?", which serious orgs do.

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        6. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 4 Oct 2017
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          Here's another win for Japanese mgmt (we do get *some* things right): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andon_(manufacturing) … Literally anyone can push the Big Red Button.

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        7. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 4 Oct 2017
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          There is a large car company that you're aware of which begins its training about Big Red Buttons with reasons why janitors have pushed it.

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        8. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 4 Oct 2017
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          "But why would you let a janitor cost the company millions of dollars?" Because we made a considered decision about tolerances and quality.

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        9. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 4 Oct 2017
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          Equifax has apparently not made that considered decision, which is the same thing as making a considered decision... they chose this outcome

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