6 hard truths IT must learn to accept

SGT (Join to see) Section three about presuming that you have already been hacked I found the most interesting. It makes sense. There are almost daily reports of a breach occurring so thinking that security is going to prevent a breach is almost delusional.

IT is the bastard child of every organization, even those in the IT biz. I suspect it's because IT has become the host to every aspect of every organization. From accounting or production, all comes to a halt when IT goes down. It is, in military terms, the command and control center. No matter what forces and weapons systems you deploy, they are not combat ready when they are uncoordinated. Thus, all organizational managers, especially at the "C" level, fear IT and want to manage it regardless of the fact that they may have no clue as to what they're doing. How else do you suppose Microsoft came to dominate? Once upon a time, you could find a healthy competitive environment is every aspect of software, from desktop applications (word processing, spreadsheets, and database managers) to specialized and custom written programs. They're all gone now. When I consulted at major corporations I had to smile every time I saw the "C"s piling into a limo and whisked away. I knew that Microsoft was at the wheel, and soon robust software would be replaced with Microsoft options. Thus, the worst came to dominate. What about the CIO? That was the bastard child of the group, usually subservient to the CFO. Wherever I went, I gave away copies of IT Governance published by Harvard Press in hopes of spreading the gospel, but it rarely did any good. The bottom line? Yes, this article is accurate insofar as it goes. However, there is an underlying cancer causing all those other problems to percolate to the surface. Poor IT governance.