STX has no qualm to spurge on IT security but cannot afford to retain it's physical assets. Every now and then IT endlessly upgrade security to the point that they are willing to compromise business in exchange for a great superfluous IT security. When its business already in a very difficult position that it has to dispose some of its main buildings to pay off debts, the management focused was on security that does more damage than help the organisation. What's your thought?
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One gets what one deserves.
The IT Techhub at Fremont site is soo dysfunctional, all the good tech that I know who can do good job and great things already left that group or quit their job...and the left over tech are unreliable.
This cyberark thing made large parts of my job impossible to do. Now I'm just copying my work data to my personal computer, doing the work there, then copying the results back when done.
IT seems to think that every person with a laptop is basically a Microsoft user.
...and the results of losing more talented employee quitting their job, the useless function of techhub, and the group running IT department.
…and this results in more layoffs in the company.
Agreed. Every layer added to security by IT winds up making it that much harder to do my job. At this point, I stopped whining as it doesn't matter to upper mgmt.
Pretty common trend, seen it in healthcare but the facilities needed better biomed tech, not cybersecurity. Then again, ransomware in healthcare can cripple a large org.