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Sometimes you have to just say no, it's not worth risking the whole business. It's better to just write a client app for the customer that's easier for them to

• wpietri 6y ago
  In retrospect, I'm sure that's obvious to SolarWinds as a whole company. But at the time, these decisions get made by particular individuals. They're weighing an eventual low-probability risk to the whole company against direct, short-term impact on something their managers are breathing down their necks about. I'm sure there were hundreds of decisions by dozens SolarWinds managers like this that worked out fine. They made some personally and immediately beneficial choice and got praised for getting things done on time and on budget. The latent problem, be it a security risk, a hidden pile of technical debt, or a cut corner, stayed latent. Unless you can rejig the system to change the odds for those individual decision-makers, things like this will keep happening.
  • rorykoehler 6y ago
    That’s why you need an internal audit team.
• ThePadawan 6y ago
  > It's better to just write a client app for the customer that's easier for them to use. I think you are vastly overestimating the capabilities of the users. They are the sort of person who has been using the same version of FileZilla since 1998 to do their weekly file upload of stock data. To them, nothing could ever be easier. Also, I would not be the engineer to want to write a client app in 2020 with Windows XP / IE6 compatibility.
  • im3w1l 6y ago
    Filezilla supports sftp and ftps.
    • earthboundkid 6y ago
      And S3!