Are IT professionals afraid to make important IT recommendations to their boss?
When I ask IT professionals why their users have blank passwords or use words like “password” for their password, the IT professional explains “my boss told me I had to leave it that way!”
The same goes for restricting Instant Messenger, or blocking web streaming sites that allow users to watch video and eat up the organization’s precious bandwidth. Then there are the issues of employees bringing in personal notebooks and connecting them to the network without any prior anti-virus checking.
Posted by Mike Foster on April 2nd, 2008 in Best Practices, IT Security, Outsourcing IT, Technology.
