Re:Someone is hacking the hackers
by dEnigma on Sunday March 07, 2021 @01:01PM
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I should also mention that it isn't in-house IT, but a separate company, and the whole thing was set up in a rushed effort late on a Friday afternoon the week before the whole working from home business would start (our management slept on it until the last minute), with a lot of other companies requesting the same support from the IT company at the same time.
Not that it completely excuses everything, and as you can tell from the Windows 7 PCs it was never the most secure setup, but simply to explain some of the reasons behind the mess.
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This has all the hallmarks of an organization that views IT as a cost center rather than an enabler. Such an organization will tend to resent any spending on IT, so it's unfortunately not a surprise that it has likely scrimped and saved its way into ineffectual IT.