More on the VA data breach

Computerworld has an article under the heading of “continued coverage: data security breaches.

Tim O'Pry, his wife and his son are all veterans, and they're among the 26.5 million vets whose personal data was stolen this month from the home of a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs employee. What O'Pry has a hard time understanding as an IT professional is why the incident happened when technology and process controls are widely available to mitigate such risks.

"Why the hell was someone allowed to have all that data at home?" asked O'Pry, who is chief technology officer at The Henssler Financial Group in Kennesaw, Ga. "Surely, they must have had policies and procedures to prevent that. If they didn't, why not? And if they did, what sort of checks and balances did they have?"