Re: SSA Wants to Audit Our System (?)

["Booth Martin" <Booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is not an IT question.  This is for others to answer.  Perhaps the
company's auditing firm should be involved?  Certainly the company's lawyers
should be called.  The ramifications can be significant.  This is way out of
the realm of IT and could prove to be a matter where a casual acceptance or
refusal could prove embarrassing, or worse, lead to expensive and unneeded
litigation. 

In any event don't get your legal advice here.
 
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-------Original Message-------
 
From: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Date: Monday, October 27, 2003 9:36:15 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: SSA Wants to Audit Our System (?)
 
I would not do that myself. I would want a full explanation and source
code I could examine.
 
On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 10:03:47 -0500, "Michael Naughton"
<mnaughton@xxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
> In our case, we believe that we paid for exactly those rights, and I
> understand we have the paperwork to prove it.
>
> But now I have a more general question: my boss says what they want to do
> is have us load some of their software on our system, using QSECOFR
> authority. It's then supposed to run for six weeks, collecting
> information
> in data files, which they will collect at the end.
>
> He seems to think we'd be crazy to let anyone do that, for any reason,
> because of security and data integrity issues. Is this standard
> procedure?
> Has anyone else experienced anything like this? I'm just curious. . .
>
>
> Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >Unless you paid for rights to continue modifying/using their code, you're
> >in
> >trouble.
>
>
> Mike Naughton
> Senior Programmer/Analyst
> Judd Wire, Inc.
> 124 Turnpike Road
> Turners Falls, MA 01376
> 413-863-4357 x444
> mnaughton@xxxxxxxxxxxx