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Robert X. Cringely points out the hidden costs of running corporate IT over the public internet:
How cheap is IT, really, if it compromises customer data? Not cheap at all. Last year’s Target hack alone cost the company more than $1 billion, estimated Forrester Research. The comparably-sized Home Depot hack will probably cost about the same. JP Morgan Chase is likely to face even higher costs.
He wonders why companies aren't shifting to dedicated networks, like they used to make with leased lines.
Taking a bank or retail network back to circa 1989 would go a long way toward ending the current rash of data breaches. It would be expensive, sure, but not as expensive as losing all the money that Target and others have recently done.
Is this practical? If so, how would it be accomplished with modern equipment?
(Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Saturday October 11 2014, @06:50AM
Devs ain't got shit to do with it, good security costs good MONEY and the MBAs won't spend the bucks. This is one of the reasons I got out of corp IT, they would have a security nightmare that could be fixed by spending X to set up Y but would they spend X? Fuck no, in fact they would often cut IT to the bone so they could say "I saved the company X amount of dollars!" and get a sweeter job at another place while the system fell apart behind them.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.