But what do you think?
Less time googling if they did.
A tiny little element of this is surely my long-observed paradox that the faster the computers get, the more I seem to have to wait around for my computer. All the extra power gets swallowed up in fancier fluff rather than calculating the same stuff faster. I’m still waiting for the day that my spreadsheets can just instantly update rather than watching the thing say “40% calculated“
Service industries are probably a good example of IT working well. The issue is with office based work. Where I used to work there were frequently updates to processes that tendered them unusable. Often a particular tool had taken most of its life cycle to get the glitches removed, and it's smooth operation was a trigger to replace it. The firm spent well over $100m rolling out a new finance system which, reasonably enough, was meant to replace 6 or 7 existing tools that covered sales, engagement cost, billing, etc. This was so catastrophically over budget that it became a desperate embarrassment and any mention of it was considered in very poor taste. More hilariously, it didn't really work for 6 months. No one could bill clients
There was a period of time when it was impossible to process any rebates on large projects in the first few countries it was rolled out in, and partners in those countries had to pay out of their personal accounts.
Damn right, you can’t. We get about 300,000 cyberattacks per day on our systems. You can’t deal with that level of systematic attack without incredibly secure architecture. That doesn’t include people pissing about with whatever doors-wide-open shitware they like because it’s “faster”!
By contrast, this mostly isn’t inherent to good security, it’s just poor ways of dealing with problems. The exception being the email thing — webmail needs banning in work protected networks. It’s like having a welcome mat for hackers.
Yes, companies need to have secure backups and they need to protect their data in secure environments. That means not allowing people to stick their stuff onto any thumb drive they happen to have lying about
yep, I do understand the why of it all, doesn’t make it any less infuriating, especially when you’ve not had to deal with it, It does slow productivity though, that was my point. And I also understand the email thing, the last thing they need is a freelancer leaking details of a new movie, it’s less likely to happen if you force everyone to use your email system on your intranet. Still infuriating to use though and complicated, someone I worked with on the same project literally gave up, it was beyond him.
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That's shocking, you should get your IT to check why, whatever is causing it to shut down will be in the event logs. That would drive me mad.
They can, or should be able to check remotely for you.
