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Yep this. This is just "we have so much technical debt, our square pegs should fit into all round holes!"

Business culture devaluing security is the root of this and I hope people see the above example of everything that's wrong with how some technology companies operate, and "just throw money at the problem because security in an annoying cost center" is super bad leadership. I'm going to guess this guy also have an MFA exception on his account and a 7 character password because "it just works! It just makes sense, nerds!" I've worked with these kinds of execs all my career and they are absolutely the problem here.



IT serves business needs... not the other way around. If anything, cloud services and mobile device access has made securing anything just about impossible.


Classic case of business not understanding that it doesn't just need access to the data, it needs secure access to the data.


That's what insurance and lawyers are for... so sayeth my management that pay me.




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