NSA to cut system administrators by 90% to limit data access - Yawn!

The National Security Agency, hit by disclosures of classified data by former contractor Edward Snowden, says it intends to eliminate about 90 per cent of its system administrators to reduce the number of people with access to secret information.

NSA to cut system administrators by 90% to limit data access - Yawn! 1376014794020

NSA to cut system administrators by 90% to limit data access - Yawn! 1376014794020

Keith Alexander, the director of the NSA, the US spy agency charged with monitoring foreign electronic communications, told a cyber security conference in New York City that automating much of the work would improve security.

"What we're in the process of doing – not fast enough – is reducing our system administrators by about 90 per cent," he said.

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The remarks came as the agency is facing scrutiny after Snowden, who had been one of about 1000 system administrators who help run the agency's networks, leaked classified details about surveillance programs to the media.

http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/security-it/nsa-to-cut-system-administrators-by-90-to-limit-data-access-20130809-hv1d7.html

NSA to cut system administrators by 90% to limit data access - Yawn!

NSA to cut system administrators by 90% to limit data access - Yawn!

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