The irony is that this cyber attack happened under a CIO that came from an iT security company (Symantec), with the intention of making HON look more “a software company”.
Both the CIO and VP of CS should be fired for their gross incompetence. Very little confidence on the leadership managing this company. I hope this topic is addressed during the upcoming shareholders meeting in May.
It is a complete mess!!!!!!!!!!!!
Honeywell's IT security initiative = Send out a bunch of emails telling all employees "it's your responsibility"
Nothing will happen.
They are sending out emails warning about phishing scams, like someone opened a bad email.
If the SAME leadership will be given the 'massive billion $$ effort', waste of resources and time.
The challenge here is huge ... Honeywell for decades has under invested in IT infrastructure and outsourced most of the IT jobs to companies that don’t have a vested interest in improvements. When we have so many different systems that were designed and built in the ‘80s and ‘90s and have been running our factories on floppy disks ... and nobody has updated them because nobody is left behind who knows how it works. I wouldn’t be surprised if there were a bunch of Windows 7 and Windows 98 servers out there that are older than the hackers who did this.
Now with this craziness going on I predict a massive Billion dollar effort to modernize the IT infrastructure and harden all the defenses. Be prepared for massive reconstruction effort which is going to affect day to day operations. In meantime management will also decide that we have to keep our original commitments and force everyone into 20+ hours of “free” overtime each week for the next year.
She has added no or little value to the company.
but they saved a bunch on their car insurance
You have little understanding of the actual event as it played out inside Honeywell and inside the more than 60000 other worldwide COMPANIES and orgs impacted by the same or related attack and actors over the last month.
Just the world calling “time up” for the massive under investment in people and tools over the last decade.
It will not cause IT “heads to roll”..
it might cause IT eyes to open when a CEO who wants to be like Elon is unable to cough up the billion or more cash it will require just to get to par on our legacy systems. Elon doesn’t have factories running 40 years old automation systems.
Do we learn or is it business as usual.
I hope our new CIO and CTOs are watching because this will tell their future.
I think it little blow back on us with fact, that leadership wanted to hide and call this "network issue". To CIO and VPs I think it is mistake to insource everything, because we are not "proper" IT company and we do not have XXX experts on cybersecurity and we never will. So our trend is to have 1+1, so the other +1 can back up during holiday of first one... And if you are really expert in this area you will never go work for Hon. you will go work for big companies like Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Google. I think the insource campaign is double edge source, because we never will have that capacity for those kind of area as " big IT companies" do.