Results for “Dell SecureWorks”

…e express purpose of getting at tightly held documents stored on computers that were not available to him in his job at Dell, then he might have been seeking wider access in 2012 for a more nefarious purpose than an NSA job. In any case, despite the near-perfect scores, the NSA...

Snowden was in full control. Although his day job at Dell involved

Snowden was living a very comfortable life. He was earning from Dell

000 a year. His housing allowance from Dell paid the rent on his 1

Dell assigned Snowden a job in which he had

which is essentially a tech-savvy repairman. Dell was working

with his three years’ experience working for Dell

which was not an improvement on his job at Dell. He took this slight as evidence of the

…the passwords to up to 24 of these vaults. He could not have obtained these passwords during his previous employment at Dell because Dell technicians did not have access to the Level 3 documents stored in these compartments. Nor, as was discussed earlier, was he given access to t...

…ords to up to twenty-four of these vaults. He could not have obtained these passwords during his previous employment at Dell, because Dell technicians did not have access to the Level 3 documents stored in these compartments. Nor, as noted earlier, was he given access to them whe...

the same location where he had worked for Dell. ©

as he did when he was a system administrator at Dell. He

…rough this back door, he could easily jump from one outsourcer to another. This was what Snowden did when he moved from Dell to Booz Allen Hamilton in 2013. Despite its security flaws, outsourcing provided a number of advantages to the NSA. For one thing, it provided a means for...

…me sensitivity, Level 3 documents were not handled by most of the private firms providing independent contrac- tors. At Dell, Snowden had access mainly to Level 1 and Level 2 data (which he could, and did, download from shared sites on NSANet). These lower-level documents had whi...

he was merely a contract employee of Dell working as a