Cisco has had its fair share of security embarrassments recently.
"It must distinguish between national security and embarrassment; between clean up and cover up".
However, the incident caused a security scandal and embarrassment for the South African government.
In part this is because much hacking goes undetected, and partly it is because businesses sometimes try to cover up breaches of data security, to avoid embarrassment.
"We know from the behaviour of the previous government with respect to the Binyam Mohamed case, that the term national security includes national embarrassment".
She learned that other homeowners in Sky Meadow Estates, a hilltop community on the Elmsford-Greenburgh border overlooking the shelter, had long complained about disturbances from Westhab, ranging from security concerns to embarrassment at backyard barbecues.
Potential consequences of poor security go beyond embarrassment, embezzlement or identity theft.
To protect national security or save national embarrassment, Prime Minister?
They asked him over in 2006, only to back out in embarrassment after security types told them that the Iranian was too great a risk.
He told me that he had no inside knowledge of the Swanner case, but he believes that, for numerous reasons, ranging from protecting national security to avoiding political embarrassment, Administration officials "would be opposed to any accountability in this case.
