Saturday, June 25, 2011

Sony knew its PSN security was at risk?


If you ever make a site with a graphical representation of certain expressions, along with "irony of fate" will be the brand of Sony. This expression is the one that best describes what happened to the company in terms of safety and may well be used as a reference. At least that's what it reveals a new lawsuit filed against Sony in the U.S., which says that after being attacked Sony fired the employees responsible for safety.


The suit was filed by Americans Cortorreal Felix, Jr. and Jimmy Jacques Daoud Cortorreal, citing an eyewitness as a source of information about the layoffs within the company. This witness claims that the industry called Sony's Network Operations Center, which is responsible for preventing and responding to attacks and data leaks, had its staff reduced dramatically two weeks before the PSN be invaded and be taken off the air.

She also said the process that the company has strengthened the very safety of their corporate data by installing firewalls and all sorts of security arrangements on the servers. But the company did not bother to spend the same amount of time or money trying to protect customer data from the PSN.

If this is not the mother of all ironies, I do not know what can be.