Security Professionals: Does this sound familiar?
Jon Oltsik writes in the C|Net Corporate Security Blog:
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Andre felt like he'd done his job and proudly reported his findings to upper management. Rather than act to adhere to compliance regulations or improve corporate governanace, they seemed to resent the bad news and simply swept it under the rug.
Not surprisingly, Andre, is quite disillusioned and sees his current job as a dead end. Meanwhile the management team continues to make a fool's bet the bad guys won't find the multitude of open doors and windows. This is bound to get ugly.
When I tell stories like this to other security professionals they respond with looks of acknowledgement and despair. Alas, Andre's dilemma is not unique. I hear stories like this one constantly.
Will things ever improve? Maybe, but it won't be pretty. Either more companies get breached and the laggards finally respond or Washington gets really tough with both new regulations and enforcement. Either way we are likely to see a lot more frustrated CSOs and costly security breaches in the short term.
posted by Fergie @ 9/14/2005 11:21:00 AM
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