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From what I've seen in my industry? To pass all the liability to Microsoft. "If something happens, we used enterprise grade industry standard software. We did
by dizlexic 1y ago
From what I've seen in my industry? To pass all the liability to Microsoft.
"If something happens, we used enterprise grade industry standard software. We did our due diligence."
This outlook is basically why we can't innovate anymore.
I had to recently sit through a meeting where our CTO quoted all the "blogs" he's been reading as a way to slap down my suggestion for an in-house project.
It's all about CYA.
- pphysch 1y agoSurely there's an untapped market for infosec liability insurance. Pay the CYA bill, let the engineers build/choose something that actually works. Win-win.
- phil21 1y agoI call it the liabilty fairy. It's why school boards don't do anything useful, among many many other things in our society. It's an endemic disease. Most of the time it's extremely exaggerated, but it's trotted out and used as a CYA excuse almost immediately by most in the executive/managerial class. Both due to outright laziness and incompetence, and also as just a... why take any personal risk whatsoever making actual decisions with any impact if I can keep my cushy job and career rolling by being as milquetoast as possible. Never mind you get the big bucks to make such important and controversial decisions at great personal (career) risk when some inevitably go wrong. Everyone forgot that part. Such roles should be hard, difficult, and risky.