The role of IT Security people…..are things getting worse?
October 21st, 2007 Drazen Drazic Posted in Bad Stuff, Dumb Security, Risk Management, governance |
This is a topic that we cover quite a bit in here. The following is a good article but does show that things for IT Security people may not necessarily be getting better. From the Taosecurity blog: Security staff as ultimate insurance.
In our experience, this is probably quite an accurate assessment of what is happening. Will business ever learn? Keen on people’s thoughts on this. Are IT Security people still struggling for recognition, acceptance and being able to perform their work to the levels people believe they should be?
A couple of related posts:
Hiring a security manager and then not letting them do their job
CIOs spooked about talking about It Security
November 1st, 2007 at 7:09 am
Good related link from Fatemah Beydoun found in SC Magazine:
http://www.securecomputing.net.au/news/63702,it-managers-fear-job-loss-after-data-breach.aspx
December 7th, 2007 at 1:07 pm
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