This incident emphasizes the vulnerability of senior officials to summary removal if they displease the president or touch his family interests.
But few doubted that it was linked to Mr. Ali's work as a state prosecutor in some of the most sensitive cases in the country, and his death reinforced the vulnerability of senior government officials who challenge Islamist militants and other powerful interests.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — President Asif Ali Zardari's chief security officer was killed in a bombing in the port city of Karachi on Wednesday, raising concerns about the vulnerability of even senior officials to attack by militants.
"It just showed how the army is stretched to the limits," said Ghazi Salah al-Din, a top adviser to Mr. Bashir, in a rare admission of vulnerability by a senior ruling party official.
"The Target and Home Depot breaches have to do with an infrastructure vulnerability," says Benson, Senior Security Analyst at SecurityMetrics, who has consulted with industry on numerous data breaches.
"We still have yawning vulnerabilities," said Stephen Flynn, senior fellow in the national security studies program at the Council on Foreign Relations.
As I heard them express their fears--with some legitimacy, given the vulnerability felt by seniors--I couldn't help but think they must have felt the same way about gay people flocking into their neighborhood years before.
"We're now at the point of maximum vulnerability," said Sam Khater, a senior economist with First American CoreLogic, the firm that conducted the recent research.
Sending your personal data across a network is a key moment of vulnerability, said Robert Zigweid, a senior security consultant at IOActive, which helps companies secure their sites and networks.
The vulnerability of the key senior MoH staff to a fractious political environment has slowed the pace of implementation of HSSMP and reduced the strength of its influence in aid coordination.
