The headline which seriously damages a company’s reputation reads:

EDS main witness in BSkyB case had a “propensity to be dishonest” – judge

Sky was suing EDS over miss-selling its capabilities to deliver a call centre and CRM system.
What caught our interest is that the EDS defence seems to have faltered because a key witness, Joe Galloway, was shown to have lied about his degree which appears to have been bought from an Internet site. (In fact the Sky barrister’s dog managed to obtain a better degree than Galloway!) From this lie, there was a lack of confidence in the whole EDS story. The costs are yet to be disclosed.

The morale of this story is to know your people before you put them in a position such as this, and to have a robust recruitment process that checks their claimed qualifications. People security is a major pillar in the security toolkit.

The headline comes from a Computer Weekly article at http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/tony_collins/2010/01/eds-key-witness-in-bskyb-case.html