ABC Valve Manufacturing is running on a 6% profit margin. That cost wipes out their entire profit margin for the year. (They are competing against people in oth

ABC Valve Manufacturing is running on a 6% profit margin. That cost wipes out their entire profit margin for the year. (They are competing against people in other countries without the same constraint.) Now, perhaps this is an upstream problem. Perhaps the problem is that we have built systems that are nigh impossible to secure for small businesses. Perhaps we need laptop computers with no USB slots (no external keyboards.. no external mice.. no external monitors..) and no ability to install anything without going through an app store. This company (that makes its own operating system) also will tell you exactly the systems you can use. Everything is certified by this company to be secure and you pay them a yearly protection racket fee to assume liability. In return, you have no control over your computer. Very strict internet filters are on these computers - no stack overflow, no hacker news, just the systems that the business has paid for. This sounds dystopian to me. I'd hate to work there. However, that's literally the only solution I see for many businesses, because the current IT system is failing us.