Comments on: U.S. Army hospital says patient information was compromised

Walter Reed Army Medical Center warns that patient data was compromised on an unsecured hospital computer.

[Schratboy]

The user is always going to be the biggest security threat. If this public system contained confidential information, why was the system even connected to the Internet?

[Kings X Rocks!]

Because users think that internet access is a god given right...

[UNiHacker]

I agree with Schratboy, if this stuff is so sensitive, disconnect it from the Inter-NET. We do this at my office in our labs. We never connect ubber critical systems to the internet.

[JR_Reagan]

There is an inherent assumption that a hospital will protect its customers' information. For customers, hearing "it's unclear what information was compromised" has the potential to break trust and reflect the conditions that customer data is constantly moved, copied, accessed and forwarded across organizations, opening the door for a host of security risks. For hospitals and other organizations, we've been counseling to protect customer data from the inside out, focusing on management first, with defense against attacks and threats coming second.

- J.R. Reagan, Vice President, Global Risk, Compliance & Security www.bearingpoint.com

[benjaminstraight]

What a shame. People served and then info is compromised.