US Military Will Soon Begin Testing NSA's New, Post-Snowden Security Measures (dailydot.com)

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday January 12, 2016 @01:13AM from the knocking-on-the-wall dept.

Patrick O'Neill writes: The U.S. military will closely review the NSA's security measures as concerns mount that foreign adversaries and independent hackers are targeting the American government in cyberspace. "We will determine whether National Security Agency processes and technical controls are effective to limit privileged access to National Security Agency systems and data and to monitor privileged user actions for unauthorized or inappropriate activity," Carol Gorman, the Pentagon's assistant inspector general, wrote in the letter.

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Re:Post-Snowden NSA by Anonymous Coward · 2016-01-12 01:49 · Score: 3, Interesting

No, to stop someone like Snowden you don't need an absolute dictatorship. You need to restrict access to systems so that employees only have access to the things they need. You have to create an environment of professionalism where people don't share passwords. You monitor access logs. You know, the things that competent corporate IT usually does already.
To stop someone like Snowden you just have to have adopted best practices (like the Real World) uses instead of a cowboy attitude towards security (like the NSA).