CIO for Hire: Ignorance may be bliss, but it’s also dangerous
Guest post: TechRepublic’s Jay Rollins talks about an instance in his company where the user view of “If it ain’t broken, don’t fix it” seriously affected the bottom line and what he had to do to correct it. You can find more posts like this in TechRepublic’s CIO for Hire blog.
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It’s kind of interesting how things work out. Many IT organizations struggle to get security or monitoring tools justified in a business case: “Everything is working fine, why do we need to upgrade our firewalls or buy enterprise virus scan?”
Then, when you get the tools in place, you find all kinds of issues that cause you to fight fires left and right. One example in my shop had to do with an enterprise virus application. Most of the servers had Free AVG or some other non-systemic security package. Once we put an enterprise-class system in place and deployed a security architecture with various layers, we had visibility we never had before and found some malware, trojans, and viruses just sitting on the network without causing symptomatic conditions.
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