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Credit Union Overcomes Insecurities: Page 3 of 4

"If theres something on a PC, it will alert us and move it automatically. If you're a front line employee, say you work in the mailroom, why do you have this much information on your PC? If it's a manager or an executive, it might be different."

Even with all the gaping holes plugged, Griffin is still working to improve security. Next year he plans to consolidate several NAS servers into a larger SAN connected to the APCU's mainframe. "We want to consolidate all that information on the mainframe, one device to back up, control data, control storage space, so we don't have stuff spread across platforms."

He's also considering NeoScale for hardware encryption because of performance concerns about doing too much encryption in software. But what he's still searching for is a way to integrate all of his security applications and devices.

"We have all these security products out there, not tied together," he says. "We're looking to integrate them in some fashion. We're looking for better reporting across the board -- 'here's what we have, this is what we need.'"

— Dave Raffo, News Editor, Byte and Switch

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