We are an organisation who have purchased a system which is used by doctors to view test results of patients (quite sensitive information). Being a programmer, I have poked and prodded with the system and found that it submits the username and password via a HTTP GET request. On the domain it is run on, all computers are set to bypass the proxy, so the URL with the request won t be saved in some proxy log somewhere. But I would argue this is an unsafe way of handling username and passwords anyway.
供应商将会辩称我们从未要求过这个功能,这将是一个需要额外费用的增强功能。(我们从一开始就没有编写过系统的规格说明)。
我可以向管理層提出什麼樣的案例,讓他們感覺這不符合標準,而這個系統可能唯一安全的方式是通過HTTPS嗎?
EDIT: Thanks for all your responses! I have raised the issue with the project leader, her response was along the lines of "what s HTTP?". So I plan to explain it all to her in better detail, investigate the legal implications and try to raise the issue with the programmers directly asking why they went that path. I will also try and explain the situation to other colleagues who don t have any direct involvement but may be able to have some influence on the matter.