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Re:Facebook stock drops more than 20% after revenue forecast... by foobarian on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @08:46PM (#17614258)
You should have seen how much harder life got at our company when we discontinued a common root password across the back office. Things that used to take 5 minutes to fix by self-service now take a ticket to the owner of a system, which can take days.
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Re:Facebook stock drops more than 20% after revenue forecast... by Pyxl101 on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @10:42PM (#17614700)
Even if you don't have a common root password, you can still have groups of people who are sudoers for different systems.
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Re:Facebook stock drops more than 20% after revenue forecast... by jessaustin on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @10:11PM (#17614603)
If one bought into "the security story", one would expect your company after this policy change to have seen fewer random regressions due to random people rooting around in systems for which they were not responsible. Did you find that to be the case?
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Re:Facebook stock drops more than 20% after revenue forecast... by rorykoehler on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @10:26PM (#17614647)
It's about reducing exposure to risk more than actual occurrences. You only need to regress once for it to permanently damage your business. Just because it never happened until now doesn't mean that it won't in the future.
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Re:Facebook stock drops more than 20% after revenue forecast... by jessaustin on Thursday July 26, 2018 @09:09PM (#17622715)
ISTM typically there would have to be more going wrong for "permanent damage"? Not that it would be surprising for a shared-root organization e.g. to have poor backup skills...
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Re:Facebook stock drops more than 20% after revenue forecast... by rorykoehler on Friday July 27, 2018 @09:09AM (#17625678)
Commercial damage is often worse than technical
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Re:Facebook stock drops more than 20% after revenue forecast... by rachelbythebay on Thursday July 26, 2018 @12:45AM (#17615111)
Shhh...
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