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Why would you fire someone for opening an attachment?

• teej 9y ago
  Cyber security is everyone's responsibility. In the US at least, hospitals and their staff are held responsible for the proper care and handling of patient health data. In my opinion a hospital administrator should definitely be held accountable for poor computer practices that led to patient data being compromised.
  • DanBC 9y ago
    Accountability after an event does little to prevent future events. There's a lot of focus on human factors in the NHS, and that tends to avoid things like blame.
  • emodendroket 9y ago
    The rational response in such a system if you mess up is to not tell anybody, wait, and hope the problem gets bad enough that it's not obvious where it started.
• pasquinelli 9y ago
  that's a good question, but it's totally independent of the expectation that if it was some low-level nobody who did it then their ass'd be fired.
  • emodendroket 9y ago
    They probably wouldn't. I'm sure anybody who's been a sysadmin has seen this happen.
  • PeterisP 9y ago
    Opening an attachment can't do anything more than you could do intentionally. If some low-level nobody really has the ability to bring down the NHS systems (no matter if it's done by accident or with malicious intent), then I can point to a long list of managers and security officers in NHS that definitely need to be fired for allowing a system where this is possible.