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There is plenty of blame to go around beyond the management. Management is always going to deflect, deny, or do whatever to save their face. There must be “arch

by harikb 7y ago

There is plenty of blame to go around beyond the management. Management is always going to deflect, deny, or do whatever to save their face. There must be “architect/lead engineer” level folks whose primary task is to engineer these stuff well. WTF are they doing? There should be a wall of shame for these (not by person, but by company and group). Next time you get a contact/candidate who “lead the sign-on 2fa management” at PayPal, we will know to be extremely cautious. There is no “karma” in tech world. People design the shittiest systems in company 1 and then move on to some other role in company 2 and float around taking credit for more and more stuff someone else did.

dinkydrew 7y ago
As someone in management, I will somewhat agree that management too often deflects from their ownership and responsibility, but what you are saying is also a form of deflection, unless you also espouse a kind of paternalistic oversight over architects/engineers that would absolve them of responsibility by simply being mindless executors of management's commands and lead. I suspect that is not something most here would support. There needs to be a balance, each party needs to play their own role and work in unison. As much as managers need to manage things and largely clear the way for architects and engineers, architects and engineers need to perform their job and role, to which I would argue belongs adhering to industry standards for security as a core aspect. If there was clear pressure or even overriding of architects/engineers insisting on adhering to standards by managers who were not performing their role of advocating on behalf of or negotiating with architects/engineers, and instead were even sabotaging them and their product, then sure, it's a management failure; but at that point, architects/and engineers should have also even out right refused and revolted against managers or at the very least clearly and expressly voiced their vehement opposition. As a manager, I would have even stuck my neck out and sided with an architect and engineer rebellion if they were pressured or even asked to sacrifice core requirements. I also understand though that not all organizations have managers that would do that, especially in careerist organizations where managers see people as bodies to pile up to climb the ladder faster.
- harikb 7y ago
  I am surprised you read it that way. I was justifying what management does - as in the are usually paid to make sure shit doesn’t hit the fan. But the architect/engineer who design these should have made better decisions.

by harikb 7y ago

dinkydrew 7y ago

As someone in management, I will somewhat agree that management too often deflects from their ownership and responsibility, but what you are saying is also a form of deflection, unless you also espouse a kind of paternalistic oversight over architects/engineers that would absolve them of responsibility by simply being mindless executors of management's commands and lead. I suspect that is not something most here would support. There needs to be a balance, each party needs to play their own role and work in unison. As much as managers need to manage things and largely clear the way for architects and engineers, architects and engineers need to perform their job and role, to which I would argue belongs adhering to industry standards for security as a core aspect. If there was clear pressure or even overriding of architects/engineers insisting on adhering to standards by managers who were not performing their role of advocating on behalf of or negotiating with architects/engineers, and instead were even sabotaging them and their product, then sure, it's a management failure; but at that point, architects/and engineers should have also even out right refused and revolted against managers or at the very least clearly and expressly voiced their vehement opposition. As a manager, I would have even stuck my neck out and sided with an architect and engineer rebellion if they were pressured or even asked to sacrifice core requirements. I also understand though that not all organizations have managers that would do that, especially in careerist organizations where managers see people as bodies to pile up to climb the ladder faster.

harikb 7y ago
I am surprised you read it that way. I was justifying what management does - as in the are usually paid to make sure shit doesn’t hit the fan. But the architect/engineer who design these should have made better decisions.