Originally Posted by
touchback
Erick... just messing with the guy a little... I agree about security on all levels. I have an extensive IT background b4 gaming and it has appalled me overall and across the board how bad network, platform, server... bla bla bla security is. Internal to external I have seen the worst at even well respected outfits... Internally the lack of password change time frames as well as letting lazy a55 individuals use non useful passwords like the same as their logins or 123456 or the even more complicated and harder to decrypt 654321. Cross network database access internally, meaning a person from a low level of being a sales or wagering clerk being able to access CSD active and archived database files... the list goes on and on... one of the worst is the firing of employees and leaving active user logins and passwords for years because the owner does not think it is an issue because the person is no longer in the building... and these are management and administration level users. Also firing executives and leaving super user accounts still available on the network for any particular person the ability to activate if thgey have the rights and lets not forget untrustable IT staff generating multi super user accounts with VPN access as well as the fact that every IT guy in CR thinks it is a personal right of being employed to possess a personal copy of the books database and that they are allowed to give it or sell it to whom they wish whenever they feel like it.... the scariest of them all though from an IT security background (financial level) it all scares the crap out of me every time I run into it and it is every time... and I mean every time. One of my last contracts first thing I did was audit user accounts and found over 30 admins and another 50 manager accounts active and not being used. Immediately went through and any account that had not logged in in last 3 weeks disabled... bla bla bla, next day CSD manager complained how I had disabled 2 wagering clerks... I was like shut up, I disabled over a hundered accounts and fine 2 were disabled by accident, so turn em back on... how hard is that. Frickn useless drama queens with nothing better to do than care about nothing instead of the fact I was doing soemething very important that they should have been doing all along.
HAHHAahaahah database security, whos database you want... They are readily available for purchase on the black market...got quite a few myself after my years in the biz.